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Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Hargreaves Lansdown, Lagardere, SocGen, European Energy Exchange; updates Anglo American)

May 22 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1930 GMT on Wednesday:

** A consortium comprising CVC Advisers and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority said it was considering a possible revised offer for Hargreaves Lansdown after the British investment platform's board rejected a buyout proposal it had made in April.

** French media and business conglomerate Lagardere said it is moving closer to a sale of its Paris Match magazine to luxury goods giant LVMH, on an enterprise value price tag of 120 million euros ($130 million).

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** Cross-border mergers between European banks are structurally unlikely, Societe Generale CEO Slawomir Krupa said, a week after French President Emmanuel Macron called for greater consolidation in the sector.

** EU antitrust regulators are seeking feedback on whether the European Energy Exchange (EEX) might expand its market power by bundling products when it buys Nasdaq's European power trading and clearing business, a person with direct knowledge of the matter said.

** Anglo American has agreed to a one-week extension for BHP Group to make a binding takeover offer, it said, after rejecting a third proposal from its rival that valued it at 38.6 billion pounds ($49.18 billion).

** Biogen said it had agreed to buy privately held Human Immunology Biosciences for up to $1.8 billion, bulking up on rare disease medicines as its older multiple sclerosis drugs face tepid demand due to rising competition.

** U.S. investment fund Oaktree Capital Management is not planning to sell Inter Milan immediately after it took control of the Italian soccer club following a missed debt payment, a source close to the matter said.

** Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) has bought Galp's 10% stake in the Area 4 concession of the multi-billion-dollar natural gas project in Mozambique's Rovuma basin, its fourth international foray into gas.

** Admiral Acquisition will buy North American engineering and lab-testing services provider Acuren in a $1.85 billion deal, the blank-check company co-founded by dealmaker Martin E. Franklin said.

** Namoi Cotton asked shareholders to reject Dutch commodity merchant Louis Dreyfus' A$138.6 million ($92.39 million) offer to take full control of the cotton ginning firm, citing a better offer by Singapore's Olam Agri .

** Uruguay's antitrust regulator blocked Mexican breadmaking giant Bimbo's planned purchase of local breadmaker Pagnifique on Tuesday, citing risks to market concentration if Bimbo were able to carry out the deal. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Jaiveer Shekhawat in Bengaluru)