Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

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Sunday September 05, 2010 04:05:20 AM GMT

Sept 3 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2000 GMT on Friday.

** Data storage provider 3PAR Inc said on Friday that shareholders owning about a third of its shares have agreed to accept Hewlett-Packard proposal to buy the company for $2.4 billion.

** Goldcorp agreed to buy Argentina-focused gold miner Andean Resources AX AND.for C$3.6 billion ($3.4 billion), trumping a competing offer from fellow Canadian miner Eldorado Gold Corp.

** Gazprom may look into buying some BP's assets in Azerbaijan if it gets such a proposal, the head of Russia's energy giant told reporters on Friday.

** EU regulators have delayed until Nov. 25 a decision on whether to clear a $160 million bid by Syngenta for Monsanto's global hybrid sunflower seed business after Syngenta offered remedies to ease competition concerns.

** Asseco Poland, Europe's number five software group, agreed to buy a 51 percent stake in Israeli IT firm Formula Systems from Emblaze Ltd to expand into new markets, the Polish group said on Friday. ** Swedish bank Carnegie said on Friday it was buying HQ Bank, which was closed by authorities last weekend for breaking risk rules, for 268 million crowns ($37 million) in a deal cleared by the financial watchdog.

** Italian betting company SNAI SpA has received expressions of interest for a stake in the group, it said on Friday, as players in the sector seek to build scale to compete. (Compiled by Tina Kwan in Singapore, NR Sethuraman and Fareha Khan in Bangalore)

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