Australia’s competition watchdog begins review of Vocus-TPG $3.4 billion deal By Reuters

(Reuters) -Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it is seeking views on the Macquarie-backed telecommunications group Vocus’ A$5.25 billion ($3.39 billion) takeover of local telecom operator TPG Telecom (BCBA:)’s enterprise, government, and wholesale (EG&W) fixed business and fibre network assets. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it is seeking views from interested parties on the likely impact on prices and service quality in the supply of fixed line

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Australia’s HMC Capital to list data centre trust worth $A4 billion By Reuters

By Scott Murdoch SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia’s HMC Capital will press ahead with the initial public offering of its data centres business that would be worth $A4 billion, according to its regulatory filings on Monday (NASDAQ:). A deal of that size would be the largest IPO in Australia this year. HMC Capital said the Digico Investment Trust (REIT) would have 13 data centres in its portfolio and 586 customers. Its

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Australia’s Novonix inks deal to supply synthetic graphite to Stellantis By Reuters

(Reuters) – Australian battery maker Novonix said on Monday (NASDAQ:) it had signed a binding off-take agreement with automaker Stellantis (NYSE:) to supply high-performance synthetic graphite material to its cell manufacturing partners in North America. As part of the agreement, the Brisbane-headquartered firm will supply a minimum of 86,250 metric tons, up to a target volume of 115,000 metric tons of synthetic graphite from its Riverside facility in Chattanooga, Tennessee,

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