Deals of the day- Mergers and acquisitions

Jan 17 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1100 GMT on Friday:

** Three bidders are expected to hand in initial offers for RWE DEA Href="NewsSearch">RWEDE.UL , the oil and gas exploration and production unit of Germany's second-biggest utility RWE AG RWEG.DE , four people close to the negotiations told Reuters.

Bids, which are due on Monday, will value DEA at about 4 billion euros ($5.44 billion), two of the people said, less than the 5 billion that sources said had been targeted by RWE originally. News Search ID:nF9N0E502M

** U.S. private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP

Href="NewsSearch">CBS.UL has decided to sell its entire majority stake in Japanese property operator Kokusai Kogyo Co to its founding family for 130-140 billion yen ($1.25-1.34 billion), people with direct knowledge of the deal said. News Search ID:nT9N0KG01X

** Norwegian branded goods producer Orkla ASA ORK.OL is seeking to sell its Czech instant food producer Vitana in a transaction that could raise $40-50 million, Czech daily Mlada Fronta Dnes reported. News Search ID:nL5N0KR10Z

** Philippine lender China Banking Corp CHIB.PS , a unit of the SM Group, has completed the purchase of a controlling stake in unlisted Planters Development Bank for 1.58 billion pesos ($35 million), the Philippine Star newspaper reported.

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** German television maker Loewe AG LOEKk.DE said some of its assets would be taken over by a group of investors that include former senior managers at Apple Inc AAPL.O and Bang & Olufsen A/S BO.CO , six months after seeking creditor protection. News Search ID:nL5N0KQ46K

** Canada's Saputo Inc SAP.TO said its shareholding in Australia's Warrnambool Cheese and Butter Factory Holdings Co

WCB.AX has jumped to 46.17 percent, putting it close to majority control.

Analysts expect hedge funds holding about 10 to 15 percent of Warrnambool to join Saputo's base A$515 million ($460 million) bid, blocking another offer from Australia's Murray Goulburn Co-operative Co Ltd. News Search ID:nL3N0KQ59Q

** UK insurer Aviva Plc's AV.L tie-up with Indonesian conglomerate PT Astra International ASII.JK is the latest push by foreign companies to capture an under-penetrated market with high premium growth rates.

Aviva and Astra said they are forming a 50-50 joint venture called Astra Aviva Life to sell and distribute life insurance products in Southeast Asia's biggest economy. News Search ID:nL3N0KR278

** Pharmaceuticals company Shire Plc SHP.L has agreed to sell its Dermagraft treatment to U.S. group Organogenesis, taking a $650 million hit on the loss-making bio-engineered skin substitute it bought less than three years ago. News Search ID:nL5N0KR0JP

** Panasonic Corp 6752.T plans to sell three chip-assembly plants in Southeast Asia to Singapore's United Test and Assembly Center Ltd Href="NewsSearch">UTAC.UL , as part of Panasonic's global reorganisation, sources familiar with the matter said.

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** Mexico's Pemex Href="NewsSearch">PEMX.UL will spend up to $475 million to buy and revamp a fertilizer production plant in the eastern state of Veracruz that will allow it to produce up to 990,000 tonnes of urea annually, the state oil monopoly said on Thursday. News Search ID:nL2N0KQ2E1

** Colombia's Grupo Energia de Bogota (EEB) plans to buy Compania Operadora de Gas del Amazonas (COGA) and a 23.6 percent stake in Transportadora de Gas del Peru (TGP), in a deal estimated at $650 million, the group said in a statement on Thursday. News Search ID:nL2N0KQ20O

** America Movil, the Mexican mobile company owned by billionaire businessman Carlos Slim, said on Thursday its U.S. subsidiary Tracfone Wireless had completed its purchase of Start Wireless Group's assets. The deal, for an undisclosed price, was first announced in May.

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(Compiled by Shivani Mody in Bangalore)

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