M&A

 Mergers & Acquisitions News (M&A)

• A consortium of telecom groups Bouygues Telecom, Iliad, and Orangeare in advanced talks to acquire SFR, the French business of indebted telecoms Altice, at a potential $23B valuation Finimize

• Sazerac offered to acquire spirits giant Brown-Forman for $15B, crashing rival Pernod Ricard's merger talks Law360

• Spanish solar firm Solaria is in talks to join a Spain-backed consortium of Telefónica and ACS seeking to develop a $4.7B data center hub Bloomberg

• HVAC conglomerate Johnson Controls International is weighing divesting its Access Control and Intrusion Detection units in its security division that could fetch $4.5B Bloomberg

• Machine engineering firm Esco Technologies agreed to acquire TBG's testing unit Megger Group in a $2.35B cash-and-stock deal Wall Street Journal 

• Japanese beverages firm Suntory will buy Daiichi Sankyo Healthcare, the OTC subsidiary of pharma firm Daiichi Sankyo, in a $1.6B deal Bloomberg

• Israeli stock trading platform eToro will acquire crypto wallet provider Zengo for $70M cash CTech

• Robotics software firm Skild AI acquired the robotics automation division of Zebra Technologies Bloomberg

• Brazilian steelmaker CSN is expecting binding offers for its cement unit in the next few ​weeks Reuters