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(Adds Shore Capital Partners, Verizon, Atos, Aermont Capital and DFDS)
The following deals, mergers, acquisitions and divestitures were reported before 2030 GMT Friday:
** Private equity firm Shore Capital Partners is in talks with Silver Lake Management to combine two veterinary groups in an $8.6 billion deal, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter .
** Institutional Shareholder Services recommended that Frontier Communications FYBR.O shareholders refrain from voting on Verizon's tender offer
VZ.N , amounting to $20 billion, and to instead support the postponement proposal.
** France continues to examine with Atos ATOS.PA the possibility of taking over Atos assets deemed strategically important for the country, French Finance Minister Antoine Armand said.
** European asset manager Aermont Capital has submitted the highest firm offer for Spanish data center operator Nabiax, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
** Danish shipping and logistics company DFDS DFDS.CO said it had terminated a share purchase agreement with Ekol Logistics and that the deal reached in April to buy the international transport network of the Turkish group would no longer be necessary.
** Britain's competition watchdog said US warehousing company GXO Logistics GXO.N's £762 million ($983.97 million) acquisition of Wincanton could reduce competition and raise prices for customers.
** Investment bank B. Riley Financial RILY.O said it had agreed to sell part of its traditional wealth management business to Stifel
SF.N in a deal expected to raise between $27 million and $35 million in cash.
** Bain Capital plans to launch a tender offer for Japanese software company Fuji Soft 9749.T in early November instead of late October as initially planned, but is still awaiting approval from the company, the company said. private equity.
** ExxonMobil's Esso division XOM.N completed the sale of the Fos-sur-Mer refinery – one of France's main refineries – and two other oil terminals to Rhône Energies, a consortium of Trafigura, indicated the two companies.
** Siemens SIEGn.DE has the financial means to make further software acquisitions after buying US industrial software company Altair ALTR.O for $10.6 billion, said Cedrik Neike, board member of Siemens SIEGn.DE. administration.
** Singapore-based Olam Group OLAG.SI said Saudi Agricultural and Livestock Investment (SALIC) had made an offer to buy its remaining stake in Olam Agri
IPO-OLAA.SI .
