Brookfield Business Partners to buy Westinghouse for about $4.6 billion

REUTERS - A group of investors led by Brookfield Business Partners L.P. said on Thursday it would buy bankrupt nuclear services firm Westinghouse Electric Co from Toshiba Corp for about $4.6 billion.

Westinghouse filed for bankruptcy in March after two nuclear power plants it had designed and was constructing in the U.S. Southeast had gone billions of dollars over their fixed-cost contracts.

The deal is expected to close in the third quarter of 2018.

(Reporting by John Benny in Bengaluru; Editing by Sriraj Kalluvila)