Deals of the day — Mergers and acquisitions

September 24 (Reuters) — The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Thursday: * France's Schneider Electric intends to launch a voluntary public takeover offer for Bulgarian smart-home device maker Shelly Group for €70 per share, the industrial group said.... * A consortium backed by BlackRock and IFM Investors is in exclusive talks to buy Stack Infrastructure's Asia Pacific data center portfolio for up to $25 billion, Bloomberg News reported, citing people familiar with the matter.... * UK-listed Capricorn Energy agreed to revised terms of a $396 million takeover offer from Norwegian oil firm DNO.... * Belgian chemicals group Tessenderlo has completed a minority equity investment in US agricultural sciences firm FMC, buying a 20% stake for about $403 million, the companies said.... * Vietnamese tungsten producer Masan High-Tech Materials said it would sell a 4.99% stake to US-based tungsten products supplier Elmet Group in a deal valuing the company at about $2.5 billion.... * Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman is exploring a sale of insurance software provider Applied Systems that could value the company at up to $10 billion, accordin