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Friday 23 October 2026
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Ashtead Technology's board recommended the 615p-a-share cash offer, an 80.9% premium to the share price before the offer period began in September.
The all-cash deal of US$20 per share adds an experimental treatment for the rare blood cancer polycythemia vera to Merck's pipeline. It is expected to close in early 2027.
The US packaging company will combine Trivium with its own metal containers business in a new venture it will own 60% of, alongside American Industrial Partners.
TAL Dai-ichi Life Australia, which already owns 20.5% of the retirement income company, has made a non-binding offer for the rest. Challenger's board is considering it.
The vehicle leasing company's board unanimously recommends the A$5.30-a-share cash offer, which follows a competitive bidding process that began in August.
New Hope would take full ownership of Malabar's Maxwell underground mine in the Upper Hunter. Malabar's board recommends the scheme.
Minority shareholders would receive $212 a share in cash. The deal is expected to close in the first quarter of 2027.
The companies said the deal would value the merged food group at about €1.8 billion, with about €1 billion in annual revenue.
Bloomberg News, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times report talks that could value the security services group at up to $US18 billion.
