News: WOR Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds: MFE-MediaForEurope, Emirates Telecommunications, BBVA, Ecolab, Vizio, Mosaic Co, Worley Updates: SES)

April 30 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1739 GMT on Tuesday:

** A push by investor MFE-MediaForEurope MFEB.MI for German media group ProSiebenSat.1 PSMGn.DE to spin off its e-commerce and online dating ventures narrowly failed to get the required shareholder backing.

** Abu Dhabi-based Emirates Telecommunications EAND.AD is considering an acquisition of European cable and pay-TV operator United Group at a valuation of around 8 billion euros ($8.6 billion), Bloomberg News reported.

		** Spanish lender BBVA  BBVA.MC  and smaller rival 
Sabadell  SABE.MC  said  that they had started negotiations to 

explore a possible merger, triggering a rise of more than 7% in Sabadell's shares.

		** Water solutions company Ecolab  ECL.N  said  it would 
sell its global surgical solutions business to private medical 

supplier Medline for $950 million in cash and raised its full-year profit forecast.

		** The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has asked for more 
information from Vizio  VZIO.N  and Walmart  WMT.N  regarding 

their proposed $2.3 billion deal, the smart-TV maker said.

		** Fertilizer maker Mosaic Co  MOS.N  said  that Saudi 
Arabia's flagship mining firm Ma'aden would acquire the 

U.S.-based company's stake in a phosphate production joint venture by issuing shares worth about $1.5 billion.

		** Worley's  (WOR)  top shareholder, Dubai-based 
engineering and consulting firm Sidara, has sold a 19% stake in 

a block trade, the Australian engineering firm said, sending its shares tumbling 7.5%.

** Japan's Ono Pharmaceutical Co 4528.T said its $2.4 billion takeover of Deciphera Pharmaceuticals DCPH.O is a "first step" in expanding in U.S. and European markets.

** Satellite company SES SESFd.PA has agreed to buy all the shares of Intelsat Holdings for about $3.1 billion in a deal that would create a European giant in the industry, the companies said.

** Hong Kong-listed L'Occitane International's 0973.HK chairman and controlling shareholder, Reinold Geiger, will take the skin-care firm private, giving it an equity value of 6 billion euros ($6.4 billion), the company said.

** U.S. hedge fund Elliott Management Corp has bought a stake in Sumitomo Corp 8053.T worth several tens of billions of yen, a person familiar with the situation said.

** Australia's Tietto Minerals (TIE) has urged its shareholders to accept Zhaojin Mining's 1818.HK offer that values the firm at A$733 million ($480.41 million) or sell shares on-market if the market price is not materially different to the offer price.

** Oil and gas firm Diamondback Energy FANG.O said on Monday it had received a second request from the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in connection with the $26 billion deal to buy privately-held Endeavor.