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

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Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions Aug 15th 2013, 10:01 Thu Aug 15, 2013 6:01am EDT Aug 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1000 GMT on Thursday: ** Energy majors Exxon Mobil Corp and Royal Dutch Shell are among the suitors advancing to the next round of bidding for Newfield Exploration Co's Malaysian and Chinese oil and gas fields valued at about $1.2 billion, people familiar with the matter said. ** AMR Corp could face months of new restructuring talks, with shareholders likely to suffer the biggest blow, if its merger with US Airways Group is successfully blocked by the U.S. government, according to people close to the bankruptcy proceedings and experts. ** Verizon Communications Inc has decided to put off the acquisition of two small Canadian wireless companies until after a government auction of wireless licenses in January, a Canadian newspaper said, citing people familiar with the matter. ** BT has agreed to make its new sports channels available to customers of cable operator Virgin Media in a three-year wholesale deal that will boost both groups in the battle to provide entertainment in the home. ** Birch Hill Equity Partners Inc, a Canadian private equity fund, has registered to lobby Ottawa over investment in wireless carriers, lending credence to the idea it wants to buy two small wireless firms and elbow aside a possible move into the Canadian market by Verizon Communications Inc. ** Brazilian tycoon Eike Batista agreed to cede control of port operator LLX Logistica to U.S. investment group EIG Global Energy Partners, one of the biggest steps in the breakup of his once high-flying energy and mining empire Grupo EBX. ** Swiss vacuum technology company VAT Vacuum Valves AG has been put up for sale in a deal that could fetch its family owners as much as 400 million euros ($532 million). ** Taiwan's Hua Nan Financial Holdings Co Ltd, which is in talks to acquire a stake in Fujian Haixia Bank on the Chinese mainland, has grown less optimistic of a deal, citing tougher financial terms. ** The Philippines is set to reject the lone bid it received on Thursday for a contract to build a $1.4 billion elevated railway extension project in the capital, the biggest infrastructure project to be put on the auction block by the Aquino government, a senior official said. The Light Rail Manila Consortium, headed by Philippine conglomerate Metro Pacific Investments Corp, submitted a bid that did not comply with the rules, said Jose Perpetuo Lotilla, undersecretary at the transportation department. Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints

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