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  • Scottish Equitable has disposed of Aegon Financial Services Group to the UK's Life Assurance Holding Corporation for an undisclosed sum.
  • Switzerland's consumer products group Nestlé is to purchase the Spillers pet food business from UK food group Dalgety. The deal is worth £715 million ($1.2 billion) and is still subject to regulatory clearance. The acquisition will give Nestlé 20% of Europe's branded pet food market.
  • Ireland's international food ingredients and consumer foods company Kerry Group has agreed to purchase the food ingredients business of UK company Dalgety. The deal, which is worth £335 million ($539 million), encompasses Dalgety Food Ingredients and its subsidiaries.
  • US defence contractor Raytheon has completed the acquisition of the Hughes defence electronics business from General Motors. The deal is worth $9.5 billion and makes Raytheon the world's third-largest defence and aerospace group.
  • Glaxo Wellcome is set to acquire Polish medicine manufacturer Polfa Poznan following a successful competitive tender with the Ministry of State Treasury in Poland. The £133 million ($220 million) deal will make Glaxo Wellcome the largest pharmaceutical company in Poland.
  • UK advertising company GGT has agreed to a takeover by US media services giant Omnicom. The bid was triggered by the loss of key advertising contracts at GGT's US operation, Wells BDDP. The deal is worth £143 million ($230 million).
  • Bank of Montreal and Royal Bank of Canada have agreed to merge. The merged bank will have assets of C$453 billion ($314 billion) and revenues of C$16.3 billion.
  • DLJ Merchant Banking Partners II is to acquire an 82% stake in Thermadyne Holdings based in St Louis, USA. Thermadyne is the world's fourth-largest manufacturer of welding and cutting equipment, and operates 14 manufacturing plants in the US, Europe, Asia and Australia. The deal is worth $790 million.
  • UK firm Linklaters is advising the four agent banks involved in the recently signed £8 billion ($12.8 billion) Eurotunnel debt restructuring. The deal involved a syndicate of almost 200 banks.
  • Compaq Computers is to merge with Digital Equipment Corporation. The deal, valued at approximately $9.6 billion, is the largest in the history of the computer industry and will create the world's second-largest computer company after International Business Machines (IBM).