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Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Published 2018-05-14, 06:00 a/m
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May 14 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1000 GMT on Monday:

** Canadian investment firm Brookfield Asset Management BAMa.TO made a $3.3 billion approach for Australian hospital group Healthscope HSO.AX, trumping a local buyout proposal and sending shares of the target up to a two-year high.

China has resumed its review of U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm Inc 's QCOM.O proposed $44-billion takeover of NXP Semiconductors NV NXPI.O , Bloomberg reported, citing unidentified sources.

French group AccorHotels ACCP.PA has agreed to buy the management company behind Chile's Atton Hoteles for around $105 million, in a deal which AccorHotels said would boost its earnings and strengthen its position in Latin America.

Xerox Corp (NYSE:XRX) XRX.N has scrapped a planned $6.1-billion deal with Fujifilm Holdings Corp 4901.T in a settlement with activist investors Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason that also hands control of the U.S. photocopier giant to new management.

China's state-owned utility China Three Gorges on Friday launched a bid to take control of Portugal's biggest company EDP, offering a premium of just below 5 percent on the power firm's closing stock price. British serviced office provider IWG IWG.L has attracted takeover approaches from three rival suitors, potentially plunging the $3.1 billion company into a bidding war.

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