Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

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June 27 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Friday:

 **  Consultancy and marketing services provider Next 15 Group  NFGN.L said on Friday it is in early-stage discussions regarding a potential sale of some of its brands, without naming them or the parties it may be in talks with.

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 ** Dutch competition watchdog ACM said on Friday it had cleared RTL Group's AUDK.LU sale of its Dutch subsidiary RTL Nederland to Belgium-based DPG Media, under conditions meant to protect the independence of involved news media.

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** Australia's Santos STO.AX said on Friday it had granted exclusive due diligence for a period of six weeks to an international consortium led by Abu Dhabi's National Oil Company (ADNOC), which had offered $18.7 billion for the gas producer.

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** Kazakhstan's ForteBank, the fifth-largest lender by assets in the Central Asian country, has bought 100% of Home Credit Bank, part of Czech investment group PPF, the two banks said , without specifying the value of the transaction.

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** JSW Paints will buy Dutch paint maker Akzo Nobel's  Indian arm for about $1.6 billion, in what will be the country's biggest deal yet in the sector as competition intensifies between established players and new entrants.

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** European broadcaster RTL Group AUDK.LU said on Friday it would buy Sky Deutschland, in a deal that combines Sky's sports and streaming offerings with RTL's news and entertainment brands to create a business with 11.5 million paying subscribers.
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** Unilever  is paying $1.5 billion (1.09 billion pounds) to buy men's personal care brand Dr Squatch from private-equity firm Summit Partners, the Financial Times reported , citing sources.

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** Energy and industrial products supplier DNOW  said on Thursday it would buy MRC Global  in an all-stock deal valued at $1.5 billion, including debt.

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** Italian merchant bank Mediobanca MDBI.MI said on Friday it would return 4.9 billion euros ($5.74 billion) to shareholders, mostly in cash, over three years to 2028 as it seeks to fend off a hostile bid from smaller rival Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS) BMPS.MI.

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 ** Alternative asset manager Blackstone BX.N has bought nearly $2 billion worth of commercial real estate loans from regional lender Atlantic Union Bankshares AUB.N, further extending its aggressive push into the CRE sector.
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** Partners at U.S. law firms McDermott Will & Emery and Schulte Roth & Zabel have voted to merge effective Aug. 1, the firms said in a joint statement on Thursday.

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** AI-focused broker consolidator Equal Parts has acquired Assurely, an Austin-based agency serving startups and emerging companies.

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 (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Apratim Sarkar in Bengaluru)

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