May 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers,
acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Monday:
** Shares in John Wood Group were on track for their
biggest one-day drop on record after U.S.-based Apollo Global
Management said it would not proceed with a takeover of
the British engineering services firm on its fifth
attempt.
** Siemens Energy has scheduled a two-day
extraordinary shareholder meeting on June 12-13 to buy the
remaining 2% in struggling wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa,
its chief executive Christian Bruch said.
** Singapore regional healthcare firm HMI Group said that it
has signed a deal to fully acquire local healthcare technology
platform MHC Asia Group, without disclosing the value of the
transaction.
** Australia's InvoCare Ltd shares jumped nearly
12% after it revealed a higher A$1.86 billion ($1.26 billion)
offer from global private equity firm TPG had been tabled just
weeks after it rejected a lower bid it said undervalued the
funeral services provider.
** Australia's Aristocrat Leisure said it will
acquire Israel-based online gaming solutions provider NeoGames
SA for about $1 billion in a bid to improve its
foothold in the real-money gaming (RMG) space.
** ONEOK Inc agreed on Sunday to buy U.S. pipeline
operator Magellan Midstream Partners in a cash-and-stock
deal valued at about $18.8 billion including debt, bringing
natural gas-focused ONEOK into transporting refined products and
oil.
** Australia's St Barbara Ltd said it will not
engage further with Silver Lake Resources Ltd regarding
its A$707 million ($480 million) offer for the gold miner's
Leonora assets, rejecting the revised bid.
** Australian gold miner Newcrest Mining Ltd said it would
back Newmont Corp's A$26.2 billion ($17.8 billion)
takeover offer in one of the world's largest buyouts so far this
year.
** Egypt's government sold a 9.5% stake in state-controlled
Telecom Egypt for 3.75 billion Egyptian pounds ($121.6
million), the finance ministry said in a statement on Sunday,
breathing life into a privatisation programme that had seemingly
stalled. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy in Bengaluru)
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