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Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

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Jan 12 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2055GMT, on Friday:

** McKesson Corp is planning to sell Canadian drugstore chain Rexall Pharmacy Group, a source familiar with the process told Reuters on Friday, seven years after the U.S. drug distributor bought the business for about C$3 billion ($2.2 billion).

** Germany's largest lender Deutsche Bank AG has stepped up internal discussions about mergers and acquisition deals involving European lenders like Commerzbank AG and ABN Amro Bank NV, Bloomberg News reported on Friday.

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** India's Tata Consumer Products will buy Capital Foods for an enterprise value of 51 billion rupees ($615.95 million), it said in an exchange filing on Friday.

** BlackRock said it would buy Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) for $12.5 billion in a major bet on alternative assets and announced a shake-up of its top management.

** CoinShares International said it has exercised an option to acquire Valkyrie Funds, expanding the European digital asset firm's U.S. offerings, after Valkyrie's spot bitcoin exchange-traded fund won the U.S. regulator's approval.

** Korean Air is expected to win EU antitrust approval to buy Asiana Airlines after the companies pledged to sell the latter's cargo unit and divest routes to four European cities, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said.

** Hillhouse and Japan's Mitsui & Co have emerged as final bidders vying for Singapore-headquartered traditional Chinese medicine chain Eu Yan Sang International, in a deal that could fetch over $700 million, two people with knowledge of the matter said.

** Solaris Resources said on Thursday that Chinese mining firm Zijin Mining Group plans to acquire a 15% stake in the Canadian miner for about C$130 million ($96.99 million), in a deal that would test Canada's new foreign investment rules.

** Bain Capital and Hellman & Friedman are competing to acquire DocuSign Inc, the provider of online signature services with a market value of about $12.5 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Puyaan Singh and Kabir Dweit in Bengaluru)