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July 1 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMTon Monday:
** Italy's Treasury has picked accounting firm KPMG to put a price tag on PagoPA, a company handling digital payments to the public administration, as it prepares to sell the business to the state mint and postal service Poste Italiane PST.MI, people close to the matter said. nL8N3IT0EW
** Robinhood Markets HOOD.O said it had bought artificial intelligence-powered investment platform Pluto Capital, adding the trading app to a growing list of companies looking to offer AI tools to customers. nL4N3IT14Z
** BlackRock BLK.N could start offering indexes and exchange-traded funds (ETFs) for private markets, the asset manager said on Monday, after it announced a deal to buy data provider Preqin for nearly $3.2 billion. nL4N3IT0ZA
** Boeing BA.N agreed to buy back Spirit AeroSystems SPR.N for $4.7 billion in stock and Airbus moved to take on the supplier's loss-making Europe-focused activities, sending shares in all three companies higher in a rare transatlantic break-up. nL4N3IT09U
** Swiss bank UBS UBSG.S has completed the merger of its domestic unit with Credit Suisse's operations in its home market, the bank said, adding that the head of the Credit Suisse business was leaving the bank. nL1N3IT0F3
** China-focused private equity firm Ascendent Capital said it has obtained all approvals in China for its proposed $1.7 billion takeover of Hollysys Automation Technologies HOLI.F. nL4N3IT0UV
** Boeing BA.N agreed to buy back Spirit AeroSystems SPR.N for $4.7 billion in stock and Airbus moved to take on the supplier's loss-making Europe-focused activities in return for hundreds of millions of dollars of compensation following months of talks. nL4N3IT09U
** Danish shipping group Maersk MAERSKb.CO said it is no longer interested in buying DB Schenker as integrating the logistics firm would pose too many challenges. nL8N3IT0NF
** Metro Pacific Tollways Corp MPCFF.PK (MPTC) and Singapore sovereign wealth fund GIC will take up a stake worth $1 billion in a unit of Indonesian toll-road operator PT Jasa Marga JSMR.JK as Asia Pacific sees growing investor interest in infrastructure assets. nL4N3IT0LU
** South African pharmacy chain Clicks Group CLSJ.J said it would sell drug maker Unicorn Pharmaceuticals to comply with a court ruling, clearing the way for the health ministry to issue the company with licences for new stores. nL8N3IT0FF
** BlackRock BLK.N has agreed to buy UK data firm Preqin for 2.55 billion pounds ($3.23 billion) in cash in a further expansion by the world's biggest asset management company into alternative investments. nL1N3IS07X
** French private equity firm PAI Partners teamed up with Spanish peer Inveready to make an offer to buy Spain's fifth largest telecom company Avatel, Expansion newspaper reported citing unidentified market sources. nL1N3IT07Q
** Indonesia's Delta Dunia Group DOID.JK plans to grow through acquisitions, backed by strong support from its lenders, after it completed the $122.4 million purchase of Atlantic Carbon Group, director Iwan Salim said. nL1N3IT05J
** Google GOOGL.O said it has taken a stake in Taiwan's New Green Power and could buy up to 300 megawatts of renewable energy from the BlackRock BLK.N fund-owned firm to help cut its carbon emissions and those of suppliers. nL8N3IQ0XT
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Sneha S K and Priyanka.G in Bengaluru)
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