News: IVC Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

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    May 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Monday:

    ** Shares in John Wood Group WG.L were on track for their biggest one-day drop on record after U.S.-based Apollo Global Management APO.N said it would not proceed with a takeover of the British engineering services firm on its fifth attempt.

    ** Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE 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 (IVC) 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 (ALL) said it will acquire Israel-based online gaming solutions provider NeoGames SA NGMS.O for about $1 billion in a bid to improve its foothold in the real-money gaming (RMG) space.

    ** ONEOK Inc OKE.N agreed on Sunday to buy U.S. pipeline operator Magellan Midstream Partners MMP.N 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 (SBM) said it will not engage further with Silver Lake Resources Ltd (SLR) 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 NEM.N 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 ETEL.CA 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.

 
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