News: NCM Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds: Sculptor Capital Management, Atlassian, Live Ventures Updates:)

Oct 12 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1400 GMT on Thursday:

		** Atlassian  TEAM.O  said it had agreed to acquire 
privately held video messaging platform Loom for about $975 

million, beefing up its team collaboration tools to tap into resilient demand fueled by the adoption of hybrid work.

		** Sculptor Capital Management  SCU.N   said it will 
accept a sweetened bid from Rithm Capital  RITM.N  after the 

real estate investment firm raised its offer for the hedge fund firm by nearly 8% to roughly $676 million.

		**  U.S. investment firm Live Ventures  LIVE.O  has 
offered to buy LL Flooring Holdings Inc  LL.N , formerly known 

as Lumber Liquidators, for roughly $180 million in cash, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

** Wagamama owner The Restaurant Group RTN.L has agreed to be taken private by private equity firm Apollo Global APO.N for 506 million pounds ($623.44 million) after a year of financial struggles and investor pressure.

** Private equity firm Triton said that it was acquiring Siemens Energy's ENR1n.DE high-voltage component business Trench in a deal that is expected to close in the first half of 2024.

** Dubai's real estate and hospitality group FIVE Holdings announced it had completed the acquisition of Pacha Group, buying its hotel and nightclub businesses in a deal worth 303 million euros ($322.06 million).

** Industrial and automotive supplier Stabilus SE STM1.DE will acquire a business unit of US manufacturer Dover Corp DOV.N in a deal with an enterprise value of $680 million, the companies said in separate statements on Wednesday.

** Australia's Liontown Resources (LTR) said it would extend an exclusive due diligence period by a week for its proposed A$6.6 billion ($4.23 billion) buyout by U.S.-based Albemarle ALB.N , even as an Australian billionaire muscles in.

** Newmont Corporation NEM.N , the world's largest gold producer, said more than 96% of shareholder votes were cast in favor of its proposed A$26.2 billion ($16.80 billion) acquisition of Australian gold miner Newcrest Mining (NCM) .

** Goldman Sachs GS.N has agreed to sell GreenSky, its home improvement lender, and associated loans to a consortium led by investment firm Sixth Street Partners, it said.