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Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Immobel, XP Inc, SoundHound)

Nov 16 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1430 GMT on Tuesday:

** A consortium led by top executives of Razer Inc plans to value the Hong Kong-listed maker of gaming hardware at up to HK$35 billion ($4.5 billion) in a deal to take it private, said two people with direct knowledge of the matter.

** SoundHound Inc will go public through a merger with a blank-check firm in a deal that values the voice assistant maker at $2.1 billion, the companies said.

** Brazilian broker XP Inc has acquired a minority stake in Vista Capital, an asset management firm with 4.5 billion reais under management in hedge and equity funds, XP said in a statement.

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** The historic Tati discount store site in northern Paris, which lies just downhill from the Sacre Coeur church, has been bought by Belgian company Immobel, said Immobel.

** Norway's largest bank DNB should not be allowed to buy online rival Sbanken as the deal would hurt customers in the mutual fund market, the Norwegian Competition Authority (NCA) said, sending the target's shares down 10%.

** Russian state lender VTB has sold the Aeroflot shares it acquired as part of a secondary public offering in autumn last year, the Interfax news agency quoted the bank's chief executive as saying.

** SoftBank Group's Fortress Investment Group plans to buy unlisted Japanese golf course operator Accordia Golf for about 400 billion yen ($3.50 billion), the Nikkei business daily said.

** Keppel Corp maintained its revised offer of S$2.351 per share to buy Singapore Press Holdings, excluding its media business, a day after Cuscaden Peak swooped in with a superior bid for the media and real estate firm.

** Self-storage real estate investment trust CubeSmart said on Monday it would buy 59 self-storage assets from LAACO Ltd for about $1.69 billion.

** Exxon Mobil on Monday launched a sale of its oil and gas properties in the first major U.S. shale field, a spokesperson confirmed, as part of a portfolio reshuffling to focus on more lucrative assets.

** Cboe Global Markets on Monday said it agreed to buy Canadian stock exchange operator Aequitas Innovations Inc, known as NEO, for an undisclosed amount, expanding its North American footprint in the latest of a string of recent acquisitions.

(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Amruta Khandekar in Bengaluru)