Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

March 28 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Thursday:

** International Resources Holding (IRH), a unit of Abu Dhabi's International Holding Company IHC.AD , said it intends to bid for a stake in Lubambe Copper Mine in Zambia.

** Britain's competition regulator said that it has decided not to open an in-depth 'phase 2' investigation into Aviva's AV.L acquisition of AIG Life UK.

** Spirent Communications SPT.L has agreed to Keysight Technologies's KEYS.N offer valuing the firm at 1.16 billion pounds ($1.46 billion), it said, withdrawing its support for Viavi Solutions's VIAV.O bid that was 15% lower.

** U.S. video game publisher Take-Two Interactive Software TTWO.O said on Wednesday it would acquire Gearbox Entertainment, best known for the first-person shooter game Borderlands, from Sweden's Embracer EMBRACb.ST for $460 million.

** India's ICICI Securities ICCI.NS has secured shareholders' nod to delist its stock, the brokerage said in the early hours of Thursday, paving the way to merge with parent and majority shareholder ICICI Bank ICBK.NS .

** Australian gold miner Ramelius Resources Ltd (RMS) said it had ended discussions with Karora Resources KRR.TO for a potential acquisition of the Canada-based mine operator.

** Walmart WMT.N has notified two U.S. antitrust agencies it will withdraw and refile a certain review application for its planned acquisition of Vizio VZIO.N , to give the regulators more time to review the deal.

** T-Mobile has won its bid to appeal a judge’s ruling that allowed a potential class of millions of Verizon and AT&T subscribers to move ahead with a lawsuit challenging the company's $26 billion purchase of rival Sprint in 2020.



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