(Adds: SilverBow Resources, Brunello Cucinelli, Home Depot, Oakley Capital, Updates: ICICI Securities, International Holding Company, Keysight Technologies)
March 28 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Thursday:
** SilverBow Resources SBOW.N said it has rejected
largest shareholder Kimmeridge Energy Management's latest offer
that valued the oil and gas producer at $2.1 billion, including debt, in the latest rebuff of the asset manager's efforts.
** Italy's Brunello Cucinelli said it had bought
Sartoria Eugubina, the latest move by one of the big luxury
brands to secure its supply chain in Italy.
** India's ICICI Securities ICCI.NS secured the votes
needed to delist its stock, capping a dramatic week that saw
backlash from some unhappy retail investors and reported attempts by parent ICICI Bank to sway votes.
** Home Depot HD.N will buy building materials
supplier SRS Distribution in an $18.25 billion deal including
debt, the top U.S. home improvement chain said, beefing up its business to professional customers as the industry tackles tepid demand.
** Oakley Capital is weighing options, including a sale,
for its Norwegian maritime training software company Ocean
Technologies Group (OTG), three sources close to the matter told Reuters.
** International Resources Holding (IRH), a unit of Abu
Dhabi's International Holding Company IHC.AD , said it intends
to bid for a stake in Lubambe Copper Mine in Zambia.
** Keysight Technologies KEYS.N outbid rival Viavi
Solutions VIAV.O to buy Spirent Communications SPT.L for
about 1.16 billion pounds ($1.46 billion), winning a battle over the UK telecoms testing firm's expertise in automation.
** Britain's competition regulator said that it has decided not to open an in-depth 'phase 2' investigation into Aviva's AV.L acquisition of AIG Life UK.
** U.S. video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software TTWO.O said on Wednesday it would acquire Gearbox Entertainment, best known for the first-person shooter game Borderlands, from Sweden's Embracer EMBRACb.ST for $460 million.
** Australian gold miner Ramelius Resources Ltd (RMS) said it had ended discussions with Karora Resources KRR.TO for a potential acquisition of the Canada-based mine operator.
** Walmart WMT.N has notified two U.S. antitrust agencies it will withdraw and refile a certain review application for its planned acquisition of Vizio VZIO.N , to give the regulators more time to review the deal.
** T-Mobile has won its bid to appeal a judge’s ruling that allowed a potential class of millions of Verizon and AT&T subscribers to move ahead with a lawsuit challenging the company's $26 billion purchase of rival Sprint in 2020.
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