** European Union antitrust regulators warned that Orange and MasMovil's 18.6-billion-euro ($20 billion) Spanish
telecoms merger could reduce competition in Spain as they opened
a full-scale investigation into the deal.
** Canadian telecommunications company Rogers Communications
Inc said it closed the C$20 billion ($14.87 billion)
deal to acquire Shaw Communications.
** The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) ordered Illumina to divest cancer diagnostic test maker Grail, finding
that its ownership would stifle competition in the U.S. market
for cancer tests.
** Blackstone Inc said it had again blocked
withdrawals from its $70 billion real estate income trust in
March as the private equity firm faced a flurry of redemption
requests.
** Teck Resources Ltd rejected an unsolicited
$22.5 billion bid from Swiss commodity firm Glencore Plc , sending the U.S.-listed shares of the Canadian copper
miner up about 10% in premarket trading.
** Real estate investment trust Extra Space Storage said it will acquire Life Storage for $12.4 billion in
a deal that will result in the combined company becoming the
largest U.S. self-storage space operator by store
count.
** UK's Financial Times said it had acquired a majority
stake in medical news publication Endpoints News.
** Mars Inc will buy veterinary diagnostics firm Heska Corp in a $1.3 billion deal to expand diagnostic offerings,
the companies said.
** World Wrestling Entertainment Inc will combine
with Endeavor Group-owned mixed martial arts franchise
UFC to form a new, publicly listed entertainment giant valued at
about $21 billion, the companies said.
** Shale producer Ovintiv Inc agreed to buy
oil-related assets in the Permian Basin from entities controlled
by private-equity firm EnCap Investments for about $4.3 billion
in cash and stock.
** M&G Investments will vote against a takeover of British
events group Hyve PLC , along with two other Hyve
shareholders who think the bid significantly undervalues the
international exhibition company, the Financial Times
reported.
** Electrical components manufacturer nVent Electric said it will acquire ECM Industries parent ECM Investors for
$1.1 billion.
** Cineworld said it would no longer put up for
sale its U.S., UK and Ireland businesses as the movie chain
operator failed to find a buyer for the group, sending shares in
the cinema chain operator down 35%.
** Finnish forestry firm UPM-Kymmene said it has
sold of all its operations in Russia to Gungnir Wooden Products
Trading.
** State-owned Chinese conglomerate CITIC Limited said it will buy a 55% stake in Nanjing Iron & Steel Group , one of the country's top specialty steel producers,
beating out top private steelmaker Jiangsu Shagang Group.
** Switzerland's Federal Prosecutor has opened an
investigation into the state-backed takeover of Credit Suisse by UBS Group , the office of the attorney
general said. (Compiled by Priyamvada C, Rajarshi Roy and Yuvraj Malik in
Bengaluru)
(Adds Orange SA, Illumina, Rogers Communications and
Blackstone)
April 3 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1600 ET on Monday:
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