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Northern Rock plc-SRM Global Master Fund LP
Topping headlines out of Europe Friday morning, SRM Global fires its first legal shot at the U.K. government over the rescue of Northern Rock.
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Centro Properties Group
Centro Properties, which operates U.S. and Australian malls, is silent on how it will refinance $3.5 billion of maturing debt as the deadline expires.
Belgacom SA-Scarlet NV
Meanwhile Belgacom buys the Belgium and Netherlands-based telecom for $270 million.
Fortune Super Equity Management-Scorpion Offshore Ltd.
Fortune Super Equity Management makes an agreed-to $780 million offer for oil drilling company Scorpion Offshore.
3i Group plc-Ultralase
3i agrees to pay roughly $350 million for Ultralase, which makes laser vision correction technology, and is currently owned by Spain's Corporacion Dermoestetica.
NYSE Euronext-Indian exchange
NYSE Euronext, the parent of New York Stock Exchange, has agreed to buy a 5% holding in India's largest commodity bourse for $55 million.
Weatherly International plc
Weatherly International, a U.K. copper producer operating in Namibia worth about $200 million, gets a takeover approach, but doesn't name the bidder.
Baloise Holdings-Gothaer Versicherungsbank VVaG
And Switzerland's Baloise and German mutual insurer Gothaer Versicherungsbank scrap merger talks.
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