Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions
Adds: Asia Cement, McKesson
Aug 26 (Reuters) -The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Monday:
** Asia Cement (China)'s 0743.HK shareholders have rejected its majority owner's take-private offer, it said.
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** Drug distributor McKesson MCK.N said it would buy a controlling stake in community cancer center Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute's business and administrative services unit, Core Ventures, for $2.49 billion in cash.
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** UCB UCB.BR, a Belgian biopharmaceutical firm, said it would sell its Chinese neurology and allergy business to Singapore-based asset management group CBC and Abu Dhabi sovereign investor Mubadala for $680 million. nL8N3KD03Z
** Swiss drugmaker Novartis NOVN.S said it had received a binding offer from Germany's Siemens Healthineers SHLG.DE to acquire its molecular imaging business for Fluorine-18 positron emission tomography, or PET scans. nL1N3KB030
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Harshita Mary Varghese in Bengaluru)
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