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

(Updates Longs, Swan; adds Lehman and others)

Sept 23 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2000 GMT on Tuesday.

(For Reuters columns on deals, click on [DEALTALK\] )

** Japan's Nomura Holdings Inc (8604.T) agreed to buy Lehman Brothers' equities and investment banking business in Europe and the Middle East, in its second swoop on the bankrupt U.S. bank's overseas assets in 24 hours. To read more, please double click on [ID:nLN452124]

** Bristol-Myers Squibb Co (BMY.N) said it raised to $62 from $60 its per-share offer for the part of biotechnology company ImClone Systems Inc IMCL.O that it does not already own. [ID:nLN213515]

** France's Electricite de France SA (EDF.PA) is poised to announce a 12 billion pound ($22.28 billion) recommended offer for nuclear operator British Energy Group Plc BGY.L, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. [ID:nOECLN4759]

** Canada's Toronto-Dominion Bank (TD.TO) is weighing a bid for all or part of Washington Mutual Inc WM.N, joining a mix of suitors eyeing a takeover of the U.S. savings and loan, a source familiar with the situation said. [ID:nN23324475]

** Banca Popolare di Milano (PMII.MI) said it had made a bid to buy Anima (ANM.MI) at a price valuing the asset manager at about 107 million euros. [ID:nLN585914]

** Satellite-phone provider Iridium Holdings LLC agreed to a reverse acquisition with a listed affiliate of investment bank Greenhill & Co (GHL.N) for about $591 million, the companies said. [ID:nBNG286703]

** Longs Drug Stores Corp LDG.N rebuffed a new effort by larger rival Walgreen Co (WAG.N) to start merger talks, despite Walgreen's warning that it may resort to a hostile takeover bid. [ID:nN23365022]

** OGE Energy Corp (OGE.N) and Energy Transfer Partners LP (ETP.N) said they would put their natural gas assets together in a joint venture to create a master limited partnership. [ID:nN23365086]

** British business and IT consultancy Charteris Plc (CHIS.L) said it acquired rival SIG Consulting Ltd for a maximum 2.5 million pounds in cash and shares. [ID:nBNG347190]

** Emirates Telecommunications Corp ETEL.AD (Etisalat) bought a 45 percent stake in India's Swan Telecom for about $900 million, a start-up which its managing director said would begin operations in 2009. [ID:nLN213813]

** Germany's RTL AUDK.LU bought a 66.6 percent stake in Alpha Media Group for 125.7 million euros ($184.2 million), marking its entrance into the Greek television market. [ID:nLN230922]

** Kookmin Bank 060000.KS plans to sell back its 14.9 percent stake in ING Group's South Korean unit to the Dutch group, and is mulling the acquisition of a domestic brokerage, the South Korean bank said. [ID:nSEO136397]

** Telecom Italia SpA (TLIT.MI) could be interested in a tie-up with South African mobile phone operator MTN Group Ltd (MTNJ.J), Corriere della Sera newspaper reported. [ID:nLN260367]