Nomura Holdings Inc is in talks to sell Japanese restaurant chain Skylark Co to U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital LLC for 280 billion yen ($3.4 billion) including debt, sources told Reuters on Friday. If the deal goes through at that price it would be one of the largest private-equity purchases of a Japanese company, and highlight a pick-up in activity in the country's traditionally slow and difficult buyout market. The negotiations are in their final stages and the hope is that the deal will be completed by the end of the month, the sources said, speaking on condition of anonymity because the talks have not been made public.
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