Daily Brief Australia: Arcadium Lithium , Sayona Mining and more

• I tally 48 – mostly firm, mostly Asia-Pac – transactions currently being discussed and analysed on Smartkarma. Inside is a timetable of upcoming key events for each deal.
• Six new deals this week: Amcor (AMC AU)takes out Berry Global (BERY US);Sayona (SYA AU)and Piedmont (PLL AU) merge; and Integrated Design & Engineering  (9161 JP)‘s TOB. 
• Key updates/news took place on: Arcadium Lithium (LTM AU), Pacific Smiles (PSQ AU), Hotel Property Investments (HPI AU), HKBN (1310 HK), Xingda International (1899 HK), and Malaysia Airports Holdings (MAHB MK).

Sayona Mining is a lithium producer and explorer with projects in Canada, Western Australia and soon in the US and Ghana. A proposed merger of equals with Piedmont Lithium will create a c A$1bn mid-tier lithium player with streamlined asset ownership and significant growth optionality. Sayona and Piedmont’s Canadian and US projects comprise one of the largest advanced hard rock lithium resources in North America and are strategically positioned to supply the region’s growing lithium demand. Following the proposed equity raises, the company will be well capitalised to execute on its growth plans. As a producer, Sayona should also benefit strongly from inevitable recovery in lithium prices, with additional upside coming from the potential downstream expansion.