Deals

Cloud communications platform provider Twilio Inc plans to buy customer data infrastructure company Segment for $3.2 billion, Forbes reported on Friday.

Euronext is to buy Borsa Italiana from London Stock Exchange for 4.3 billion euros ($5.1 billion) in cash, the companies said on Friday, in a major expansion of the French operator's network of European trading platforms.

Five newly launched Chinese funds targeting Ant Group's upcoming mega stock listing raised 60 billion yuan ($8.93 billion) cumulatively from more than 10 million retail investors, selling out within days, the funds' distributor said.

Private security firm G4S said on Friday that U.S. rival Allied Universal has expressed interest in making an offer for the British company, which is currently in a hostile takeover battle with Canada's GardaWorld.

A blank-check company backed by private equity firm Apollo Global Management Inc said on Friday it was looking to raise $400 million in a U.S. initial public offering.

Billionaire investor Daniel Och, who founded hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management, said in a filing on Friday that he plans to raise $750 million through a blank check acquisition vehicle, becoming the latest major hedge fund investor to launch one.

Aeroflot said on Friday the state would take up 50 billion roubles worth of its 80-billion rouble ($1 billion) new share offering, a vital cash injection for Russia's flagship airline that is reeling from the pandemic.

A French court ruled on Friday that unions must be consulted on the sale of gas utility Engie's 29.9% stake in waste and water group Suez to larger rival Veolia before it can proceed.

Senator Marco Rubio, who has successfully urged the Trump administration to pursue investigations of Chinese companies, called on Friday for the U.S. government to consider options to delay an initial public offering of China's Ant Group, the fintech arm of Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba .