	sosnoff ends pratt prat southmark sm deal investor martin t sosnoff said southmark corp and affiliate pratt hotels corp have ended talks with his mts uisition corp on a possible joint venture for the uisition of caesars world inc sosnoff said the talks had not been actively pursued since they were announced march but it had been agreed that unless the discussions were formally terminated pratt and southmark would not initiate a competing tender offer for caesars world or take any other action that would hamper sosnoff s current offer to uire all caesars shares he does not now own for dlrs each sosnoff said his dlr per share bid for caesars which is scheduled to expire may still stands and he remains receptive to negotiating a transaction to buy caesars on friendly terms pratt recently made an apparently unsuccessful bid to uire control of resorts international inc rtb seeming to lose out to donald trump reuter 
