The benchmark palm oil contract for September delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange closed up 38 ringgit, or 1.1%, at 3,415 ringgit ($825.48) a tonne.
CBOT's soybean oil contract was up 4.5% after a 9.2% drop on Thursday.
IJM Corp said it has received a letter from KLK, one of the largest palm oil planters in the country, offering to acquire its 56.2% equity holding at 3.10 ringgit per share.
The offer, at a 26% premium to IJM Plantations' last traded share price of 2.46 ringgit, values the palm oil producer at 2.73 billion ringgit.
The benchmark palm oil contract for August delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange closed down 157 ringgit, or 3.52%, at 4,300 ringgit ($1,039.65) a tonne, its biggest one-day percentage fall in seven weeks.
The benchmark palm oil contract for July delivery on the Bursa Malaysia Derivatives Exchange fell to 3,942 ringgit ($961.46) per tonne, after closing 4.7% higher on Tuesday, its biggest jump in 11 months.
On the Chicago Board of Trade, the soybean oil contract fell 3.6%, while the Dalian Commodity Exchange's soyoil contract declined 1%.