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Deals of the day- Mergers and acquisitions

Feb 28 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1000 GMT on Friday:

** German property group Deutsche Annington announced on Friday plans to buy two property portfolios with a total of 41,500 flats for a combined 2.4 billion euros ($3.28 billion), to be financed with equity and debt.

** Chinese developer Soho China Ltd said on Friday it was selling two commercial buildings in Shanghai for a total of 5.23 billion yuan ($853.4 million), lower than the initial asking price, at a time of excess supply in the city.

** Support services and construction company Interserve Plc said it had agreed to buy a facilities service business from a unit of Rentokil Initial Plc for 250 million pounds ($417 million), seeking to strengthen its foothold in the British support services market.

** Italian tiremaker Pirelli said on Friday it had agreed to sell all of its steelcord business to Belgium's Bekaert Corp in a deal worth around 255 million euros ($345 million).

** German nationalized lender Hypo Real Estate said on Friday that a list of bidders for public finance specialist DEPFA Bank had been selected and that a sale was possible by July.

** Italy's Banco Popolare said on Friday it planned to sell a majority stake in its bad debt unit Release, which owns gross loans worth 3.2 billion euros ($4.38 billion).

** China's COFCO Corp said it had agreed to buy a stake of 51 percent in Dutch grains trader Nidera, confirming an earlier Reuters report.

** South Korean telecoms firm KT Corp said on Friday it had decided not to bid for a stake in state-owned Tunisie Telecom, but gave no reason why. ($1 = 0.60 British pounds) ($1 = 0.73 euros) ($1 = 6.13 Chinese yuan) (Compiled by Shubhankar Chakravorty in Bangalore)