Reuters: Bankruptcy News: Deals of the day - mergers and acquisitions

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Deals of the day - mergers and acquisitions Jan 17th 2013, 10:30 Thu Jan 17, 2013 5:30am EST Jan 17 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1030 GMT on Thursday: ** Private equity group Silver Lake Partners is close to arranging about $15 billion in financing for a buyout of Dell Inc, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the matter. ** Dutch brewer Heineken said it would close its offer for remaining Asia Pacific Breweries shares at the end of the month and was set to take full control and delist its target in February. ** The owner of Russian mobile group Megafon has been in talks with rivals over a potential carve-up of Swedish telecom group Tele2's business in Russia, Vedomosti newspaper reported. ** Mexico's Grupo Bimbo and a partnership between Apollo Global Management and veteran food executive C. Dean Metropoulos are among the leading candidates to buy Hostess Brands Inc's snack cake brands, according to three people familiar with the matter. ** A private equity fund that has made a binding offer for Telecom Italia's TV unit could consider a full takeover bid if asked to, but will not increase its offer, a source close to the matter told Reuters. ** U.S. footwear maker K-Swiss Inc said it has agreed to be acquired by South Korean retailer E-Land World Ltd for $4.75 per share in cash in a deal valued at about $170 million. ** Shares in Dutch telecoms company KPN rose more than 4 percent on Thursday after a report that U.S. peer AT&T is looking at an acquisition in Europe, including KPN and UK carrier Everything Everywhere. ** EIG Global Energy Partners LLC has agreed to drop its opposition of the sale of its former parent, asset manager TCW Group Inc, to private equity firm Carlyle Group, marking the end of a four-month legal battle. ** Clearwire Corp shareholder Mount Kellett complained that Sprint Nextel Corp's offer to buy out the company was "grossly inadequate" and said Clearwire's special committee had breached its fiduciary duties in accepting the offer. (Compiled by Vishal Krishnan Menon in Bangalore) Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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