News: AZS Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds: Sculptor Capital Management Updates: SQM, Western Digital)

Oct 27 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Friday:

		** Sculptor Capital Management  SCU.N  agreed to a 
sweetened buyout deal from Rithm Capital  RITM.N  that values 

the hedge fund at about $719.8 million, and secured the backing of its founder who had earlier opposed the acquisition.

		** Hancock Prospecting, owned by Australia's richest 
person Gina Rinehart, threatened to torpedo a deal by the 

world's second biggest lithium chemicals maker, Chile's SQM SQMA.SN , for an Australian lithium miner.

		** Merger talks between Western Digital  WDC.O  and 
Japan's Kioxia Holdings have stalled, two sources said ,as 

opposition from Kioxia investor SK Hynix has complicated the on-again, off-again deal to create a memory chip giant.

** Portugal's largest utility EDP EDP.LS said it had agreed to sell 50% of its unit Abono, which has two coal-fired power plants in northern Spain, and plans to convert one of the plants to be fired with gas until mid-2025 and close the other.

** United Parcel Service UPS.N on Thursday said it is spending more than $1 billion this quarter to buy two companies it hopes will bolster profit and volumes amid bare-knuckled market share battles with delivery rivals like FedEx FDX.N .