** Sumitomo Life Insurance Co said it is buying HSBC Holding’s 18 percent stake in Vietnamese insurer Baoviet Holdings for about $340 million, the latest Japanese acquisition in Southeast Asia. ** Private equity firm Carlyle Group LP said on Thursday it has bought nearly half of an energy-focused peer, NGP Energy Capital Management LLC, as it seeks to capitalize on a revolution in U.S. ** A trio of small oil and gas companies said on Thursday they have agreed to combine to form a mid-sized Canadian producer, hoping a focus on light crude and monthly dividend policy will generate more value for investors than they were garnering individually.
** BNP Paribas SA, France’s largest bank, agreed to sell its Egyptian arm to Dubai lender Emirates NBD for $500 million as French lenders divest operations in the North African country to shore up their capital bases. ** Spanish bank Santander said it will book gross capital gains of 410 million euros ($543.6 million) from its alliance with Dutch insurer Aegon aimed at strengthening their bankassurance business in Spain. ** General Motors and PSA Peugeot Citroen, daunted by likely political roadblocks, scrapped plans for a joint mid-size car programme within their nascent alliance while adding engine cooperation. ** French luxury group PPR is in exclusive talks to sell its Cyrillus and Vert Baudet children’s apparel brands to investment fund Alpha, online newspaper Wansquare reported. ** Appalachian natural gas company EQT Corp said it will sell its distribution business to privately held Peoples Natural Gas for about $720 million in cash to focus on its growing production and pipeline businesses. ** William Hill, Britain’s largest bookmaker, expanded into the large Australian gambling market when it and partner GVC Holdings agreed a 485 million pound ($789 million) deal for Sportingbet on Thursday. ** Canadian grain handler Richardson International Ltd said on Thursday it has received approval from Canada’s Competition Bureau for its C$800-million ($808 million) purchase of some country elevators, port grain-terminal space and processing plants from Glencore International PLC.
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** Oracle Corp agreed to buy Eloqua Inc, a maker of web-based marketing automation software that listed in August, for about $810 million as it seeks to expand its cloud-computing services. gene-sequencing company.Ĭiting “information that appears trustworthy but could not be verified”, the paper said the two parties may have last week agreed on a transaction price of $66 per share which would value the company between $8.1 billion and $8.2 billion. ** Shares in Illumina jumped 7 percent on Thursday, after Swiss newspaper L’Agefi reported that Roche may have reached an agreement to buy the U.S. ** Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has bought a 1.2-billion-euro ($1.6 billion) stake in a portfolio of industrial real estate from warehouse owner Prologis, as it ramps up its still small property investments. ** IntercontinentalExchange agreed an $8 billion deal to buy New York Stock Exchange owner NYSE Euronext on Thursday, propelling the commodities player into European financial futures and helping it to take on arch rival CME Group.
Dec 20 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2130 GMT on Thursday:
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