** Barrick Gold Corp is not interested in bidding for the copper assets of Teck
Resources Ltd as there are few synergies between the companies, CEO Mark Bristow said
in an interview with Reuters on Wednesday.
** Financial investor Advent International has put the company Deutsche Fachpflege up
for sale, Handelsblatt said, citing people familiar with the matter.
** Britain's competition watchdog said it was looking into Adobe Inc's $20
billion buyout deal for cloud-based designer platform Figma to find if it could lead to
"substantial lessening of competition" in the country.
** UBS was considering the potential impact of buying struggling rival Credit
Suisse as early as December, months before the takeover was hastily arranged by Swiss
authorities in March, according to a regulatory filing.
** INEOS Energy said it had acquired a portion of Chesapeake Energy's oil and gas
assets in the Eagle Ford shale, south Texas for $1.4 billion.
** Centene Corp will sell its artificial intelligence-powered healthcare analytics
platform Apixio to investment firm New Mountain Capital as part of an ongoing portfolio review,
the U.S. health insurer said.
** U.S. asset manager Apollo Global Management Inc plans to apply for approval from
Swedish and Danish regulators to take a majority stake in SAS AB as part of the
Scandinavian airline's rescue plan, a source familiar with the matter said.
** Spanish oil company Repsol is close to buying a majority stake in power retailer
CHC Energia, the Expansion newspaper reported, citing unidentified market sources.
** Pfizer's plan to sell its Haleon stake is not a surprise, the consumer
health company's finance chief Tobias Hestler told Reuters.
** U.S. midstream company Energy Transfer said on Tuesday it has completed its $1.45
billion acquisition of Lotus Midstream Operations and boosted its earnings expectations for the
rest of the year.
** Sika has completed its acquisition of Germany-based MBCC after receiving all necessary
regulatory approvals, the Swiss chemicals company said on Tuesday. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Jaiveer Singh Shekhawat in Bengaluru)
(Adds Barrick, Advent International, Adobe, INEOS Energy; updates UBS)
May 3 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported
by 1700 GMT on Wednesday:
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