Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Equinor, Ferrovial, Sabadell, Prelios, Diagnosticos da America; Updates Great Eastern)

June 14 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1945 GMT on Friday:

** Brazil's Diagnosticos da America (Dasa) and health insurance operator Amil have agreed to combine their hospital businesses, setting up a joint venture with almost 10 billion reais ($1.86 billion) in net revenue, the firms said.

** Privately owned fintech group ION has received a green light from Italy's central bank to buy bad loan and property manager Prelios from U.S. hedge fund Davidson Kempner, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

** Spain's Sabadell has postponed the completion of the sale of its retailers' payments business to Nexi after becoming the target of a hostile takeover by BBVA, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

** Infrastructure giant Ferrovial said it had reached a new agreement with French private equity fund Ardian and Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF) to sell the bulk of its 25% stake in Heathrow airport while keeping 5.25%.

** The independent directors of Singapore's Great Eastern have been advised to recommend that minority shareholders accept a S$1.4 billion ($1.03 billion) offer from the insurer's top investor Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp (OCBC) .

** Norwegian energy giant Equinor has suspended efforts to sell a stake in the giant Rosebank oil development in the UK North Sea due to fiscal uncertainty ahead of next month's election in Britain, sources close to the matter said.

** U.S. oil refiner Phillips 66 said it would sell its 25% stake in the Rockies Express Pipeline for about $1.28 billion, including debt, to a subsidiary of Tallgrass Energy.

** Thai retailer Central Group agreed to acquire the assets it has not already secured in KaDeWe Group, a chain of landmark department stores in Germany, part of tycoon Rene Benko's folded property empire.

** Shares in Spain's Solaria jumped by as much as 10% after a Bloomberg report saying that the solar developer had received unsolicited takeover approaches.

** Vodafone Group is looking to sell its entire $2.3 billion stake in India's Indus Towers through stock market block deals next week, two sources with direct knowledge said, as part of the British firm's effort to repay debt.

** Global Yatirim Holding, the controlling shareholder of Global Ports Holding, the world's largest cruise port operator, said that it would take the London-listed firm private.

** French oil and gas major TotalEnergies will sell its Brunei business to Malaysian independent exploration and production firm Hibiscus Petroleum for $259.4 million, both companies said.

** Germany's antitrust regulator has cleared plans of Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky's EP Corporate Group to acquire a stake in Thyssenkrupp's steel division, the agency said.

** Japan's Kirin Holdings said it was offering 220.7 billion yen ($1.4 billion) to acquire the rest of skin care brand Fancl Corp as the beer maker continues to pivot toward the health and wellness businesses.

** Britain's competition regulator launched a formal investigation into homebuilder Barratt's 2.52 billion pound ($3.21 billion) all-stock deal to buy smaller rival Redrow to examine whether it has the potential to hurt competition. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Sourasis Bose in Bengaluru)