Japan Tobacco Inc has agreed to buy the maker of E-Lites, a leading brand of e-cigarettes in Britain, giving it entry into the fast-growing market for tobacco alternatives.

Singapore Telecommunications Ltd said on Wednesday it plans to buy two U.S.-based advertising companies for a total of $359 million to strengthen its digital marketing profile.

Bank Muscat, the sultanate's largest lender, is considering a sale of its brokerage unit as one of several "strategic options" for the business, the bank said in a bourse filing on Monday.

KKR & Co LP has struck its first real estate deal in South Korea, acquiring a commercial property in Seoul with Hong Kong-based hedge fund LIM Advisors in a deal which local media valued at around 500 billion won ($489 million).

Omnicom Group Inc's media services division signed a deal worth $230 million with Twitter Inc that will integrate Omnicom's automated ad buying unit Accuen with Twitter's mobile ad exchange MoPub.

Intuit Inc, developer of tax-preparation software TurboTax, said it had entered into a definitive agreement to buy bill-payment service Check Inc for $360 million in cash and other considerations

Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB) has completed the purchase of a 24.9 percent stake in Indonesia's Bank Panin Syariah from its parent firm, an executive at Bank Pan Indonesia was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

Baker & McKenzie and Debevoise & Plimpton have scored lead advisory roles on Japan’s Dai-ichi Life Insurance Co’s agreement to buy American insurer Protective Life for $5.7 billion in what is the largest ever acquisition by a Japanese insurer.

Japanese insurer Dai-ichi Life Co is in advanced talks to buy U.S. peer Protective Life Corp in a deal that could be worth more than $5 billion, extending a drive to buy assets abroad as an antidote to a weak domestic outlook.

Allen & Overy won a total of eight awards at the 10th annual ALB SE Asia Law Awards, including the SE Asia Law Firm of the Year and the Emerging Markets Law Firm of the Year, while Freshfields’ managing partner, Stephen Revell, won the coveted Managing Partner of the Year award.