Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Globus Medical; Updates Restaurant Brands)

Nov 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2100 GMT on Monday:

** Globus Medical Inc has approached NuVasive Inc , a U.S. manufacturer of equipment for minimally invasive spine surgery with a market value of $3 billion, with an acquisition offer, people familiar with the matter said.

** KKR & Co Inc and Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) will take U.S. data center operator CyrusOne Inc private for $11.49 billion in cash, the latest deal in a sector that has boomed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

** American Tower Corp agreed to buy U.S. data center operator CoreSite Realty Corp for $7.51 billion in cash to tap into a sector that has seen a boom in demand during the COVID-19 pandemic.

** Burger King-parent Restaurant Brands International Inc has agreed to buy Firehouse Subs for $1 billion, at a time when its popular brands are struggling due to increased competition from rivals launching new menu items.

** Berlin-based e-scooter operator TIER Mobility has bought bike-sharing firm Nextbike to create Europe's largest provider of shared lightweight vehicles, the companies said .

** Spain's BBVA offered to buy the rest of Garanti for up to 2.25 billion euros ($2.6 billion), taking advantage of a slide in the lira and raising fears in Turkey that foreigners might snap up assets at bargain prices.

** BNP Paribas is working with advisers to assess a sale of its U.S. arm Bank of the West as it seeks to retreat from the American retail banking market after struggling to compete with larger and better capitalised rivals, sources told Reuters.

** Heineken said it planned to buy South Africa's Distell Group Holdings and Namibia Breweries Ltd to form a southern African drinks group worth 4 billion euros ($4.6 billion).

** Japan's Jera said it will pay about $2.5 billion for a stake in Freeport LNG in the U.S. to Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP), which said earlier it will invest about the same sum in a liquefied natural gas (LNG) project in Australia.

** Supermarket group Ahold Delhaize said it wanted to spin off its 5.5 billion euro ($6.3 billion) Dutch online retail business Bol.com, which is competing with Amazon.com, and to list its shares in the second half of next year.

** Cuscaden Peak raised its offer for Singapore Press Holdings Ltd to about S$3.9 billion ($2.88 billion), looking to fend off a challenge by Keppel Corp in a rare bidding war between two groups linked to Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings.

** Bank of Cyprus Holdings said it had agreed to sell a portfolio of non-performing loans and some real estate properties to Allianz's Pimco for around 385 million euros ($440.98 million).

** Czech generic drug maker Zentiva denied a report that its private equity owner Advent International had plans to sell the company.

** Australia's Woodside Petroleum took a big step toward funding its biggest growth project, announcing the sale of a 49% stake in the planned expansion of its Pluto liquefied natural gas plant in Western Australia. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Amruta Khandekar and Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru)