UPDATE 3-Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Landry's, AIG, Alitalia, Oeger Tours and others)

Jan 12 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2100 GMT on Monday.

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** Germany's RWE, Europe's fifth-largest utility, is to buy Dutch peer Essent's production and delivery assets for an agreed 8.2 billion euros ($11 billion), to expand its gas and renewable energy operations.

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** Ford Motor Co (F.N) has had talks with potential bidders for its luxury Volvo brand, Ford Chief Executive Alan Mulally said. [ID:nN11282983]

** Abbott Laboratories Inc (ABT.N) plans to buy Advanced Medical Optics EYE.N for nearly $1.4 billion, making it the leader in Lasik laser vision correction and second-biggest player in cataract surgical lenses. [ID:nN12317055]

** American International Group Inc (AIG.N), moving ahead with asset sales, has received the first round of bids for its aircraft leasing unit, and is expected to send out books soon on its asset management business, people familiar with the matter said. [ID:nWEN2540]

** Alitalia agreed to sell a 25 percent stake to Air France-KLM (AIRF.PA) for 323 million euros ($429 million), giving the Franco-Dutch airline wider access to Europe's fourth biggest travel market after years of courtship. [ID:nLC210075]

** Constellation Brands (STZ.N) said it agreed to sell its value spirits brands to Sazerac Co for $334 million, sending shares of the alcoholic drinks maker up 3 percent. [ID:nN12309619]

** French chemicals group Rhodia RHA.PA said it had agreed to buy McIntyre Group Ltd, a privately held U.S. company with estimated 2008 sales of $146 million. [ID:nLC598201]

** Landry's Restaurants Inc LNY.N ended its buyout agreement with Chief Executive Tilman Fertitta as the company was unwilling to disclose financing terms as required by regulators, sending its shares down as much as 43 percent. [ID:nBNG296595]

** Israel-based software security company Aladdin Knowledge Systems Ltd ALDN.OALDN.TA said it agreed to be acquired by an investor group led by private equity firm Vector Capital for about $160 million, sending its shares up as much as 16 percent. [ID:nBNG374932]

** Turkey's Petrol Ofisi (PTOFS.IS) and Toreador Resources Corp have decided to hold further talks on the U.S.-based company's sale of a stake in a gas production project, the two companies said. [ID:nLC376854]

** Kazakh state oil and gas company KazMunaiGas [KMG.UL] said it had bought a controlling stake in local upstream company MangistauMunaiGas. [ID:nLC364970]

** Malaysia's national car company Proton Holdings PROT.KL may sell a controlling stake to a foreign carmaker, company Chairman Nadzmi Mohd Salleh told the Business Times newspaper. [ID:nKLR417295]

** African investment bank and asset management group Imara Holdings Ltd IMRA.BT said it had formed an alliance with Nigerian financial services firm Chapel Hill Denham to give it a foothold in Africa's most populous nation. [ID:nLC201655]

** Russian billionaire Alexander Lebedev has abandoned plans to buy a majority stake in Germany's sixth largest tour operator Oeger Tours for now because the deal was currently not achievable, Oeger said. [ID:nLC46135] (Compiled by Tina Kwan in Singapore, Amiteshwar Singh and Anand Basu in Bangalore)