News: BHP Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds AT&T Inc, Vale SA, Rio Tinto, Enel, Embraer SA; Updates Aker BP)

Dec 21 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2100 GMT on Tuesday:

** Shares of Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA EMBR3.SA soared after the company said it had agreed to combine its electric aircraft subsidiary Eve with Zanite SPAC and list it on the New York Stock Exchange.

** Italian utility Enel ENEI.MC will remain a minority investor in Latin America's Ufinet by renewing a partnership with private equity firm Cinven that will give it 19.5% of the broadband group.

** Rio Tinto Plc RIO.L , (RIO) said it would buy the Rincon lithium project in Argentina for $825 million as the global miner builds its battery materials business.

** Brazilian miner Vale SA VALE3.SA announced a deal to sell its Moatize coal mine in Mozambique and a connected railway corridor for $270 million to Vulcan Minerals, a subsidiary of India's Jindal Group.

** AT&T Inc T.N said it was selling its advertising unit, Xandr, to Microsoft MSFT.O , partly exiting a venture that had appeared to become expensive for the telecom company.

** Norway's Aker BP AKRBP.OL will buy the oil and gas business of Sweden's Lundin Energy LUNE.ST , forming the second-largest listed petroleum firm on the Norwegian continental shelf, the two companies said.

** BHP Group (BHP) said it would not match a takeover offer by billionaire Andrew Forrest's Wyloo Metals for Noront Resources Ltd NOT.V , essentially bowing out from a months-long tussle for the Canadian nickel miner.

** British money manager Schroders plc SDR.L said it has reached an agreement to buy 75% of renewable investor Greencoat Capital Holdings Limited in a bid to grow its sustainable investment offering.

** Drugmaker Sanofi SA SASY.PA will buy Amunix Pharmaceuticals Inc for an upfront payment of about $1 billion, marking the latest acquisition by the French drugmaker in the U.S. biotech sphere as Sanofi aims to offset COVID-19 vaccine setbacks.

** Elliott Management Corp, the hedge fund that has amassed a stake in Citrix Systems Inc CTXS.O , has partnered with Vista Equity Partners for a joint bid for the U.S. cloud computing company, people familiar with the matter said.

** Britain's antitrust watchdog launched an in-depth probe into the 13 billion euro ($14.67 billion) merger of Veolia VIE.PA and Suez SEVI.PA after the French waste and water management groups did not offer concessions over its concerns.

** Bank of Montreal BMO.TO said it will buy BNP Paribas' BNPP.PA U.S. unit, Bank of the West, for $16.3 billion in its biggest deal ever, allowing the Canadian lender to double its footprint in the world's biggest economy, while giving France's largest bank a huge step up in firepower for deals.

** Ireland said it will begin a "phased exit" from its 71% stake in Allied Irish Banks AIBG.I over the next six months, as it pares back state ownership of its largest banks.

** French billionaire Vincent Bollore has received a 5.7 billion-euro ($6.43 billion) offer from Mediterranean Shipping Company (MSC) for his African logistics assets, a deal that would transform his family group just two months before his self-declared retirement.