The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 1030 GMT on Friday:
** Australian private equity fund Pacific Equity Partners (PEP) has approached potential buyers for its share-registry business Link Group, kickstarting an auction that could value the company at as much as A$1.4 billion ($1.4 billion) including debt, sources said.
** Private equity firm Carlyle Group and other major shareholders of Taiwan's Ta Chong Bank plan to sell the bank to Yuanta Financial in a deal worth up to T$37 billion ($1.25 billion), two sources familiar with the situation said on Friday.
** Russian investment and trading group Summa has agreed with businessman Sergei Generalov to buy control of his transport group FESCO for around $1 billion, an industry source familiar with the deal said on Friday.
** Dutch food and chemicals firm DSM is buying the world's biggest producer of a fish oil extract for about 420 million euros ($534 million), as it targets parts of the food sector resistant to economic swings.
** Bus and rail operator Stagecoach Stagecoach said on Friday it had agreed to buy nine of Coach America's businesses, including operations in Texas and California, for 85 million pounds ($134.4 million).
** Italian insurer Fondiaria-SAI has proposed share swap ratios for the planned merger with Unipol that would give its peer 61 percent of the new merged entity, Italian newspapers said on Friday.
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