Russian businessman Vladimir Potanin's Interros holding company bought its 35% stake in lender TCS Group for several hundred million dollars, he said in an interview with the Interfax news agency on Thursday.

Spanish telecom firm Telefonica said on Thursday it agreed to sell a 7.08% stake in the media group Prisa, the publisher of El Pais newspaper, for 34 million euros.

Canada's Brookfield Asset Management has agreed to buy British home repair services firm HomeServe for 4.08 billion pounds ($5.04 billion), as it looks to broaden its exposure to UK residential infrastructure investments.

Spain's BBVA said on Wednesday it had paid 22.76 billion Turkish lira ($1.43 billion) to raise its stake in Garanti to 85.97%, following its bid for the rest of the Turkish lender it did not own.

Societe Generale said on Wednesday it had closed the sale of its Russian business Rosbank to the Interros group, a firm linked to Russian oligarch Vladimir Potanin, which will result in the bank taking a 3.2 billion-euro ($3.35 billion) net income hit.

Spain's BBVA said on Wednesday it had paid 22.76 billion Turkish lira ($1.43 billion) for an additional 36.12% stake in Turkish lender Garanti following its voluntary takeover offer.

A group led by Europe's largest carmaker Volkswagen is set to win unconditional EU antitrust approval for its 2.9-billion-euro ($3 billion) bid for French car rental company Europcar, two people familiar with the matter said.

EU antitrust regulators are expected to approve without conditions a Volkswagen-led consortium's 2.9 billion euro ($3 billion) bid for Europcar, people familiar with the matter said.

Mediobanca's stake in Generali is down to just under 13% after the investment bank returned shares it had borrowed to have a greater say at a shareholder meeting of the insurer last month, a regulatory filing showed on Wednesday.

* Meeting took place but did not touch on M&A - source (Recasts with comments)