(Adds: Desert Peak Minerals, PKN Orlen, Repsol, Embraer SA, TCS Group Holding Updates:)
Jan 12 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1600 GMT on Wednesday:
** Desert Peak Minerals, an owner of mineral rights and royalties, said it would merge with rival Falcon Minerals FMLN.O to go public in a deal valuing the combined company at $1.9 billion.
** Poland's largest refiner PKN Orlen PKN.WA said it will sell some Lotos LTSP.WA assets to companies including Saudi Aramco and Hungary's MOL MOLB.BU to fulfill EU antitrust rulings and complete its takeover of the smaller firm.
** Spain's Repsol REP.MC has agreed to sell its interest in two remaining Russian assets to Gazprom Neft SIBN.MM , the oil arm of the state gas company Gazprom GAZP.MM , both companies said.
** Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA EMBR3.SA said it has reached a deal to sell its Portugal-based subsidiaries Embraer Portugal Estruturas Metalicas and Embraer Portugal Estruturas em Compositos to Spain's Aernnova Aerospace.
** Russian lender TCS Group Holding TCSq.L said it planned to develop Swiss crypto exchange Aximetria as part of its international expansion and would later disclose details of the transaction to buy the bourse.
** Spanish infrastructure group Acciona ANA.MC is considering selling an 8% stake in its clean energy unit Acciona Energia ANE.MC on the stock market six months after its initial public offering, Cinco Dias newspaper reported, citing unidentified financial sources.
** Softbank-backed Brazilian company 2TM, which runs Latin America's largest cryptocurrency exchange Mercado Bitcoin, said it will acquire a controlling stake in Lisbon-based crypto exchange CriptoLoja.
** Australian lithium miner Liontown Resources Ltd (LTR) said it signed a deal to sell lithium spodumene from its flagship project to the battery unit of South Korea's LG Chem, sending its shares soaring 13%.
** Australian buy now, pay later firm Afterpay Ltd (APT) said its $29 billion buyout by payments firm Block Inc SQ.N , previously known as Square Inc, has received approval from the Bank of Spain, making the deal fully unconditional.
