Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions
April 21 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 0400 GMT on Tuesday.
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** Rio Tinto (RIO.L)(RIO.AX) plans to sell its 27 percent stake in a Chinese aluminium processing joint venture to its partner Shenzhen Zhongjin Lingnan Nonfemet (000060.SZ), China's third-largest zinc producer said.
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** Three private equity houses -- Affinity Equity Partners, Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and MBK Partners -- have made final offers for South Korea's Oriental Brewery (OB), an official at the beer maker said. [nSEO85746]
** Oracle Corp (ORCL.O) plans to enter the computer hardware market by buying Sun Microsystems Inc (JAVA.O) for more than $7 billion, swooping in after Sun's talks with IBM (IBM.N) fell through. [nN20381533]
** Andre Esteves, the billionaire Brazilian banking prodigy, completed a dizzying comeback to the forefront of finance with the surprise purchase of Banco Pactual from UBS for $2.5 billion [nN20382440]
** The world's top cellphone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) has sold its enterprise mobile TV unit to India's Wipro (WIPR.BO), a spokesman for Nokia said. [nLK385103] (Compiled by Tina Kwan in Singapore)
