Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Eminence Capital, Salym Petroleum, Alstom, Demand Media, Vattenfall; updates Beam, McKesson, Goldcorp, Amec, Suntory Holdings)

Jan 13 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2100 GMT on Monday:

** Suntory Holdings Ltd Href="NewsSearch">SUNTH.UL on Monday said it would buy U.S. spirits company Beam Inc BEAM.N for $13.6 billion cash in a deal that would make the Japanese company the world's third-largest spirits maker. News Search ID:nL6N0KN1V1

** U.S. drugs wholesaler group McKesson MCK.N said on Monday it had failed to win enough support for a $8.4 billion offer to buy German distributor Celesio CLSGn.DE , leaving it empty-handed in a sector where cross-border consolidation is accelerating. News Search ID:nL6N0KN3D3

** British oil and gas engineering firm Amec AMEC.L has agreed to buy Swiss-based rival Foster Wheeler FWLT.O for 1.9 billion pounds ($3.13 billion), the first sizeable acquisition in the sector for three years. News Search ID:nL6N0KN0LZ

** Canada's Goldcorp Inc G.TO launched an unsolicited cash-and-stock bid to acquire smaller rival Osisko Mining Corp

OSK.TO for C$2.6 billion ($2.4 billion) on Monday, in a move to gain control of Osisko's Malartic gold mine in Quebec.

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** Eminence Capital LLC, a key shareholder in both Men's Wearhouse Inc MW.N and Jos. A. Bank Clothiers Inc JOSB.O , said it would seek a court ruling to prevent Jos. A. Bank from refusing to discuss a $1.61 billion takeover offer from Men's Wearhouse. News Search ID:nL3N0KN2YM

** Salym Petroleum Development, a Russian joint venture between Shell RDSa.L and Gazprom Neft SIBN.MM , said on Monday it had started oil fracking in Siberia, a technology seen as key to Russia maintaining its level of oil production.

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** German container shipping company Hapag-Lloyd Href="NewsSearch">PLG.UL is nearing a deal to buy Chilean shipper Compania Sud Americana de Vapores VAP.SN , which has a market capitalization of $845 million, German newspaper Die Welt reported on Sunday.

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** French turbine and train maker Alstom ALSO.PA is set to receive tentative bids this week for its heat exchanger business in a potential 600 million-euro ($820 million) deal, three people familiar with the process said. News Search ID:nL6N0KN2OV

** French drugmaker Sanofi SA SASY.PA will buy a 12 percent stake in Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc ALNY.O for $700 million and deepen their partnership to develop drugs for rare genetic diseases. News Search ID:nL2N0KN0I0

** Demand Media DMD.N , which owns websites eHow, LiveStrong and Cracked, moved on Monday to spin off its Rightside Group domain business as a separately traded company, according to filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. News Search ID:nL2N0KN0WI

** Germany's Landesbank Baden-Wuerttemberg LKBFg.F has sold its Czech subsidiary to Russian businessman Igor Kim's Expobank, for an undisclosed price, the two banks said on Monday. News Search ID:nL6N0KN2C3

** Australia's biggest phone company Telstra Corporation Ltd

TLS.AX has agreed to sell 70 percent of its directories unit Sensis, offloading a struggling business challenged by digital transition for less than the market had anticipated.

Telstra said that it had agreed to sell the Sensis stake to Platinum Equity, a U.S.-based private equity firm, for A$454 million ($407.17 million). News Search ID:nL3N0KM0F6

** ACE Ltd ACE.N has agreed to buy a 60.9 percent stake in Thailand's Siam Commercial Samaggi Insurance PCL SCSM.BK for about $185 million as foreign insurers step up their presence in underdeveloped Southeast Asian insurance markets.

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** Toshiba Corp 6502.T is in the final stages of boosting its stake in British nuclear power firm NuGen to around 60 percent by buying a 10 percent stake from French utility GDF Suez SA GSZ.PA , industry sources familiar with the matter said. Toshiba would buy the stake from GDF Suez, which owns 50 percent of NuGen, for about 3 billion yen ($29 million), the Nikkei business daily reported. News Search ID:nL3N0KN1JN

** UBS AG UBSN.VX is not considering spinning off its investment bank, its Chief Executive Sergio Ermotti said, rebuffing speculation last week that it may consider such a move to quieten demands for it to put aside more capital.

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** Discovery Communications Inc DISCA.O and Scripps Networks Interactive Inc SNI.N abandoned talks for a merger last week, the Wall Street Journal reported, quoting people familiar with the matter. News Search ID:nL3N0KN1MI

** Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall Href="NewsSearch">VATN.UL is offering to sell its entire stake in Polish power producer Enea

ENAE.WA via an accelerated bookbuild, bookrunner Deutsche Bank

DBKGn.DE said on Monday. News Search ID:nL6N0KN2ZE

** Sports Direct International Plc SPD.L , Britain's largest sporting goods retailer, has acquired a 4.6 percent stake in Debenhams Plc DEB.L and said it wants to explore options "at an operational level" to work with the country's No. 2 department store group. News Search ID:nL6N0KN0QI

** Franco-American telecoms company Alcatel-Lucent SA

ALUA.PA is in talks with three potential buyers for its business selling telecoms equipment and services to corporations and a decision on the sale is expected by March, a Bloomberg report said. News Search ID:nL6N0KN0CG

** Ukraine's leading agriculture group Ukrlandfarming said U.S. agriculture giant Cargill Ltd Href="NewsSearch">CARGIL.UL had bought a 5 percent stake in the Ukrainian firm.

The deal took place in late 2013, Ukrlandfarming said in a statement, without disclosing the value of the stake.

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** German steelmaker Thyssenkrupp AG TKAG.DE will merge three units that develop production plants for industrial customers to seek faster growth in the market, it said.

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** International trade houses are buying into Russian grain port facilities to try to counter high handling costs from one of the world's top producers of cereals, making smaller players fear they will lose out. News Search ID:nL6N0KI2W8

** U.S. oil and gas producer Hess Corp HES.N has finalized a deal to sell its Ujung Pangkah block in the East Java sea, worth $650 million, to PT Saka Energi Indonesia, a subsidiary of state-controlled gas firm PT Perusahaan Gas Negara PGAS.JK , the Investor Daily reported on Sunday. News Search ID:nL3N0KN0NJ

** France's Total SA TOTF.PA is set to become the first major oil company to invest in Britain's nascent shale gas industry, sources said on Saturday, boosting hopes for a pick-up in exploration to help assess the commerciality of the resource.

Total will announce a deal to commit 30 million pounds to drilling for shale gas in Lincolnshire in central England, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. News Search ID:nL6N0KL06N

** Hong Kong property firm Pacific Century Premium Developments Ltd 0432.HK , controlled by tycoon Richard Li, said on Monday it was in advanced talks to sell a property in Beijing for an undisclosed amount.

** Serbian agribusiness firm Sunoko will seek to buy 62.1 percent of shares in AIK Banka AIKB.BEL to gain control over the domestic lender, it said on Monday.

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(Compiled by Shivani Mody and Shubhankar Chakravorty in Bangalore)

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