News: NIC Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Dec 8 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1030 GMT on Wednesday:

** Clinigen CLINC.L agreed to be bought by UK-based Triton Investment Management in a deal that values the pharmaceutical services group at about 1.2 billion pounds ($1.6 billion), making it the latest British company to go private.

** British energy supplier Centrica CNA.L and its partner, German utility Stadtwerke Munchen, have agreed to sell their oil and gas assets off Norway for a total of $1.1 billion, Centrica said .

** Sweden's Securitas SECUb.ST said it had agreed to buy U.S. rival Stanley Black & Decker's SWK.N electronic security solutions business for $3.2 billion in its biggest acquisition to date.

** Australia's second-largest independent gas producer Santos Ltd (STO) said it has agreed to sell a 12.5% stake in its Barossa project to a local unit of Japan's biggest power generator JERA.

** Australia's Nickel Mines Ltd (NIC) said it would acquire a 70% stake in the Oracle Nickel project in Indonesia in a $525 million deal, as it sets its eyes on becoming a global top-10 producer of the commodity.

** Nestle SA NESN.S said on Tuesday it would cut its stake in L'Oreal OREP.PA to about 20% by selling shares worth 8.9 billion euros ($10 billion) back to the French cosmetics brand, moving to reduce the weight of the beauty giant on its books for the first time in 7 years.