Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Reuters09-23

(Adds: MINISO, UniCredit Updates: Rightmove)

Sept 23 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Monday:

** MINISO will take up a 29.4% stake in Chinese supermarket operator Yonghui Superstores for 6.3 billion yuan ($893.05 million), it said, on track to becoming the largest single shareholder in the embattled firm.

** UniCredit said it had acquired, through financial instruments, a further 11.5% of Commerzbank after applying to supervisors to reach a holding of up to 29.9% in the German rival.

** Britain's Rightmove said it would carefully consider Australian property listing firm REA Group's sweetened 6.1 billion pound ($8.12 billion) takeover bid for the company, after rejecting two previous proposals.

** Australian medical diagnostics firm Healius is selling its Lumus imaging unit for A$965 million ($658.1 million) to an Asian private equity group, it said, helping the loss-making company reduce its debt.

** BNP Paribas has signed a deal to buy HSBC's HSBA.L private banking unit in Germany as it continues to expand its footprint in wealth management, the French lender said.

** French shipping giant CMA CGM plans to launch a full takeover bid for port terminal operator Santos Brasil after it agreed to buy a 48% stake in the company, it said as it further expands its grip on global shipping infrastructure.

** Finland's Fortum said it had agreed to sell its 37.4% stake in Chempolis, including Fortum's all biobased solutions businesses, and its shares in the holding company owning 40.3% in Assam Bio Ethanol in India.

(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Pooja Menon in Bengaluru)

((Rajarshi.Roy@thomsonreuters.com;))

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