M&A

•  Paramount Skydance is urging shareholders to support its $108B hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros. Discovery; Trump says a WBD deal should include the sale of CNN 

• Blackstone agreed to acquire utility-parts maker MacLean Power Systems and merge it with PortCo Power Grid Components at a $4B valuation

• Chinese investment firm HSG is nearing a deal to buy luxury Italian sneaker maker Golden Goose from UK PE firm Permira at a $3B valuation

• Apollo and Canada's Capital Power Corp. struck a $3B deal to acquire in US gas-fired power plants

• Dutch payments firm Mollie is set to complete its acquisition of UK fintech GoCardless at a potential $1.5B valuation

• Professional services giant WTW agreed to acquire brokerage firm Newfront in a $1.3B cash-and-stock deal

• Vista Equity-backed UK financial software firm Finastra is seeking to sell its US mid-size banks unit for over $200M

• $145M UK-listed gambling group Evoke is exploring a sale 

• PE firm Kingswood Capital agreed to acquire French aircraft engine-maker Safran's in-flight entertainment and connectivity unit

• Software giant UST will acquire a majority stake in Italian design and engineering firm Italdesign Giugiaro from Volkswagen's Audi.