News: TLS Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

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Oct 25 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Monday:

** UBS Group UBSG.S has agreed to sell its Spanish wealth management business to Madrid-based Singular Bank, the Swiss bank said, its second exit from a European market in the past 12 months.

** EU antitrust regulators will decide by Nov. 30 whether to clear the merger of French waste and water management companies Veolia VIE.PA and Suez SEVI.PA , a European Commission filing showed.

** PayPal Inc PYPL.O is not pursuing an acquisition of Pinterest Inc PINS.N at this time, the payments company said late on Sunday, responding to media reports that it was in talks to buy the digital pinboard site for as much as $45 billion.

** South African miner Sibanye Stillwater SSWJ.J said it was in talks to buy Santa Rita nickel and Serrote copper mines in Brazil.

** Britain's Co-operative Bank confirmed said it expressed interest in potentially buying TSB from Spanish lender Banco de Sabadell SABE.MC .

** An investor group led by Canadian real estate company Canderel has agreed to take Cominar REIT CUF_u.TO private in a C$2.14 billion ($1.73 billion) deal, as it looks to expand its presence in Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa.

** Telstra Corp Ltd (TLS) said it agreed to buy the Pacific operations of telecom firm Digicel Group in a $1.6 billion deal largely funded by the Australian government and seen as a way to block China's rising influence in the region.

** Origin Energy Ltd (ORG) agreed to sell a stake of 10% in the Australia Pacific LNG project for A$2.12 billion ($1.58 billion) to investor EIG Partners, in the world's first deal involving private equity in an operating integrated LNG project.

** SoftBank Group Corp is in talks to sell the Paris-based robotics business behind its Pepper android to Germany's United Robotics Group, according to sources and documents reviewed by Reuters, scaling back a business it once touted as a major growth driver.