(Adds NioCorp Developments Ltd, Hammerhead Resources, Empresas Copec)
Sept 26 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Monday:
** Hammerhead Resources Inc plans to list on the Nasdaq by merging with blank check company Decarbonization Plus Acquisition Corporation IV DCRD.O in a C$1.39 billion ($1.02 billion) deal, a rare U.S.-listing for a Canadian oil and gas producer.
** Rare earth miner NioCorp Developments Ltd NB.TO said it will merge with blank-check firm GX Acquisition Corp II GXII.O , giving it access to up to $285 million for the development of its Elk Creek project in southeastern Nebraska.
** Chile's Empresas Copec COPEC.SN has entered the customer delivery services business by acquiring last-milelogistics firm Blue Express for about $225 million, the country's largest industrial group said.
** A KKR & Co Inc KKR.N led group has withdrawn a A$20 billion ($13 billion) bid for Australian hospital operatorRamsay Health Care (RHC) after talks hit a stalemate, killing Australia's biggest deal of the year and sending the target's shares tumbling.
** Brazilian oil company Petro Rio SA PRIO3.SA said it has agreed to buy a 40% stake in the Itaipu oilfield from TotalEnergies TTEF.PA , a move that will take its interest in the asset to 100%.
** Airports Group Europe, an indirect subsidiary of IFM Global Infrastructure Fund (IFM GIF), has sweetened its bid toobtain a majority stake in Vienna Airport.
** Shares in M6 MMTP.PA , the French television unit German media giant Bertelsmann has put up for sale, rallied after reports that initial offers by bidders had been filed.
** Property investor LXi REIT LXIL.L said it is pulling out from a deal to buy Sainsbury's SBRY.L stores in southern England after suspending an equity funding, citing stock market volatility.
** Qatari telecoms company Ooredoo ORDS.QA is preparing for a sale of 20,000 of its towers, it said , with sources close to the matter saying it has engaged Morgan Stanley MS.N to work on the deal.
** Spanish power company Iberdrola IBE.MC hired Barclays' BARC.L investment bank to sell up to 49% in a portfolio of Spanish renewable power projects, Expansion newspaper reported, citing unidentified market sources.
** The Asian branch of global crop merchant Louis Dreyfus Company (LDC) said it had entered into an agreement with Longriver Farms for the acquisition of Australian grain handler Emerald Grain.
** Private equity firm Ratos RATOb.ST said it had made a recommended cash offer for Semcon SEMC.ST that values the Swedish tech consultancy at 2.84 billion crowns ($249.1 million).
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