News: MQG Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds: Macquarie Group, Rocket Software, Teck Resources Updates: Tempur Sealy International)

May 9 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1945 GMT on Tuesday:

** Australia's Macquarie Group Ltd (MQG) is looking to sell its North American port facilities business, Ceres Terminals, for about $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing sources familiar with the matter.

** Rocket Software announced an improved offer for the acquisition of the entire share capital of Germany's Software AG SOWGn.DE at an initial offer price of 34 euros per share ($37.43).

** Pierre Lassonde, a Canadian mining industry veteran, has made an offer to invest in Teck Resources Ltd's TECKb.TO coal business, in a bid to thwart Glencore Plc's GLEN.L hostile attempt to merge with Teck.

** Tempur Sealy International Inc TPX.N said it would buy retailer Mattress Firm in a cash-and-stock deal valued at about $4 billion, as the leading U.S. bedding maker looks to stem a post-pandemic decline in sales..

** Hutchison 0001.HK will likely reach a deal on merging its Three UK mobile network with Vodafone's, said its chief financial officer, although he added that getting the deal over the line was difficult.

** Britain gave the green light to satellite company Viasat's VSAT.O acquisition of rival Inmarsat, confirming the $7.3 billion deal would not substantially reduce competition in the supply of wifi on commercial flights.

** U.S. private equity group KKR & Co Inc KKR.N and Australia's Macquarie Asset Management are among potential bidders for the waste and recycling management arm of Singapore's energy group Sembcorp in a deal that could value the unit at around $500 million, said two sources with knowledge of the matter.

** JD Sports Fashion JD.L has proposed buying France's Groupe Courir for an enterprise value of 520 million euros ($572 million), in what would be the British group's first acquisition since setting out ambitious expansion plans in February.

** South African specialist logistics property group Equites EQUJ.J said it plans to sell its logistics business in the United Kingdom as a way to unlock value amid rising interest rates impacting asset valuations.

** HSBC HSBA.L has agreed to buy out its China fund management joint venture partner, two people familiar with the matter said, as the Asia-focused bank pushes ahead with expansion in the world's second-largest economy.

** Toronto-Dominion Bank's TD.TO handling of "suspicious" customer transactions was behind regulators' refusal to approve the lender's $13.4 billion deal to buy First Horizon FHN.N , the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing people familiar with the matter.