June 13 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Wednesday:
** AT&T Inc (NYSE:T) T.N won court approval on Tuesday to buy Time Warner Inc (NYSE:TWX) TWX.N for $85 billion, rebuffing an attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump's administration to block the deal and likely setting off a wave of corporate mergers.
Hong Kong's CK Infrastructure Holdings 1038.HK has made a A$12.98 billion ($9.8 billion) takeover offer for Australia's biggest gas pipeline company, APA Group APA.AX, offering a hefty 33 percent premium to tap into a hot gas market.
Medical device maker Stryker Corp (NYSE:SYK) SYK.N was not in discussions to buy rival Boston Scientific Corp (NYSE:BSX) BSX.N, Stryker said in a regulatory filing, two days after reports of a potential deal between the two surfaced.
Australia's Investa Office Fund IOF.AX and Blackstone (NYSE:BX) Group BX.N entered into a scheme implementation agreement through which the U.S. private equity giant would acquire the real estate investment trust for A$3.08 billion ($2.3 billion).
Siemens AG SIEGn.DE is considering strategic options including a potential sale of its struggling business that makes large gas turbines for power plants, Bloomberg reported on Wednesday citing people familiar with the matter.
A British parliamentary committee will question the CEOs of the UK's no.2 supermarket Sainsbury 's SBRY.L and its third-biggest supermarket Asda ahead of their proposed combination, as scrutiny of the deal cranks up.
Canadian utility AltaGas Ltd ALA.TO said it would sell a 35 percent stake in three hydroelectric projects in Northwest British Columbia for C$922 million ($707.87 million) to help fund its acquisition of U.S.-based WGL Holdings Inc.
Finland's centre-right government sold a stake of 5 percent in oil refiner and biofuel company Neste NESTE.HE for 861 million euros ($1.0 billion), prompting criticism from the opposition that it gives up too much control of company.
German car parts maker IFA Rotorion has been put up for sale by its family owners in a potential 500 million euro ($588 million) deal, two people close to the matter said. Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) JNJ.N said on Tuesday it has accepted private equity firm Platinum Equity's $2.1 billion buyout offer for the company's LifeScan Inc unit.
France's ERAMET ERMT.PA increased its all-cash offer for Australia's Mineral Deposits Ltd MDL.AX to A$1.75 a share, valuing the company at A$344.7 million ($261 million). Australia's Gateway Lifestyle Group GTY.AX said it received a non-binding offer from Hometown Australia Holdings Pty Ltd and Hometown America Communities Ltd Partnership - a proposal that values the company at A$635 million ($480 million).
Finnish utility Fortum FORTUM.HE has agreed to sell its 10 percent stake in Norwegian hydropower company Hafslund Produksjon to Svartisen Holding AS for 160 million euros ($188 million), it said. Vietnam's Binh Son Refining and Petrochemical BSR.HNO will offload a further 49 percent stake and not limit the sale to only strategic investors as previously planned, in order to attract more buyers, its chief executive officer said. South African frozen fish supplier Sea Harvest Group SHGJ.J said a consortium of black investors it leads will buy the fishing business of domestic peer Viking Fishing Group for 885 million rand ($66 million).