Market Chatter -- Corporate finance press digest

BANGALORE, Nov 18 - The following corporate finance-related stories were reported by media on Wednesday:

* Apollo Management [APOLO.UL], a private equity firm headed by former Drexel Burnham Lambert executive Leon Black, is planning to list on the New York Stock Exchange, the Financial Times reported. [ID:nN17469097]

* Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp <9432.T>, Japan's largest phone company, has entered the race to buy a majority stake in Patni Computer System <PTNI.BO>, the latest in a string of potential suitors eyeing India's No. 6 software services firm, the Economic Times said on Wednesday. [ID:nBOM526236]

* Mall firm Simon Property Group Inc <SPG.N> has hired investment adviser Lazard Ltd to help it formulate a strategy for possibly bidding for all or part of rival General Growth Properties Inc <GGWPQ.PK>, which is operating under Chapter 11 protection, the Wall Street Journal reported. [ID:nWEN6689]