Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Sabadell, Royal Mail, Anglo America; Updates Hess, Energy Transfer)

May 28 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1945 GMT on Tuesday:

** Hess shareholders approved the company's $53 billion merger with No. 2 U.S. oil company Chevron, according to preliminary results of the vote.

** BHP was struggling to find common ground with Anglo American in talks over its takeover offer, with no new concessions as a deadline nears for the world's biggest miner to submit a binding offer, five sources said.

** Royal Mail's parent company International Distributions Services (IDS) is set to recommend a firm offer by Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky, a person with knowledge of the situation said.

** Spain's Sabadell has told its retail shareholders the bank has "excellent prospects" alone and that they may not need to make a decision about BBVA's 12.23 billion euro ($13.3 billion) hostile takeover attempt until 2025.

** Energy Transfer said it would buy WTG Midstream Holdings in a deal valued at about $3.25 billion, the latest acquisition in the midstream sector aimed at expanding transportation and processing network in the Permian Basin.

** Riot Platforms said it has offered to acquire all outstanding shares of Bitfarms for about $950 million in total equity value, even after a private proposal was rejected by the crypto miner's board last month.

** T-Mobile will buy almost all of regional carrier United States Cellular's wireless operations including customers, stores and 30% of its spectrum assets in a deal valued at $4.4 billion, the telecom giant said.

** Adam Neumann has ended his bid to re-acquire WeWork as the coworking business he co-founded has chosen to emerge from bankruptcy with an "unrealistic" plan, he told the New York Times Dealbook.

** Vista Outdoor said it had agreed to sell its sporting products business to Czechoslovak Group for $1.96 billion, after the Prague-based defense firm raised its offer to acquire the unit from the company.

** Nordson, which makes products for a variety of industries, said it would buy medical devices maker Atrion Corp in an $800 million deal, expanding its medical portfolio.

** Private equity firm Energy Capital Partners will buy Atlantica Sustainable Infrastructure for $2.56 billion in cash, the utility said, in a deal that will give its biggest shareholder funds to lower its debt.

** A consortium of U.S. firm KKR and Singapore Telecommunications (SingTel) has emerged as the frontrunner to buy a minority stake worth $1 billion in one of Asia's biggest data centre providers, two sources with knowledge of the matter said.

** Asahi Kasei offered to buy Swedish drugmaker Calliditas Therapeutics for around $1.1 billion as the Japanese maker company looks to turn itself into a global player in pharmaceuticals.

** OTE Telecom, Greece's biggest telecoms operator, is in talks with West Network Invest for the potential sale of its Romanian mobile business, Telekom Romania Mobile, it said late on Monday.

** ABN Amro has agreed to buy German private bank Hauck Aufhäuser Lampe (HAL) for 672 million euros ($730 million) from China's Fosun International to expand in wealth management, its largest deal since the global financial crisis.

** Italy's Newlat Food said on Monday it will buy British food group Princes for 700 million pounds ($891.9 million) to create the first Milan-based "unicorn" - or billion-dollar startup - in the food sector.

** Owners of Asian pallet pooling provider Loscam are considering a sale of the entire company in a deal that could fetch over $2 billion, three people with knowledge of the situation said. (Compiled by Rajarshi Roy, Aatreyee Dasgupta and Sourasis Bose in Bengaluru)