Nov 3 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0940 GMT on Thursday:
** Croatian food producer and retailer Fortenova Grupa said it had not been officially notified of a deal that Russian state bank Sberbank Rossii PAO SBER.MM reached to sell its 43% stake in the company, local media reported.
** The recent performance of Unipro UPRO.MM , which majority owner Uniper UN01.DE is trying to sell, has increased interest from potential buyers, Uniper Chief Financial Officer Tiina Tuomela told analysts after presenting nine-month results.
** Liberty Global's Telenet TNET.BR said it was in talks with France's No. 1 telecoms company Orange ORAN.PA over a potential network access to Walloon cable operator VOO, which Orange plans to acquire.
** Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and real estate investment manager ESR Group 1821.HK have partnered to set up a $600 million joint venture to buy profit-making industrial and logistics assets in India, they said.
** Trading in shares of Australian asset manager Perpetual Ltd (PPT) in the final minute of trade on Wednesday is being investigated in light of a A$1.68 billion ($1.07 billion) takeover bid that arrived , the Australian securities regulator said.
** Marathon Oil Corp MRO.N said on Wednesday it had struck a deal to buy natural gas-focused assets from private equity-backed Ensign Natural Resources for $3 billion in cash, nearly doubling its position in South Texas' Eagle Ford shale basin.
** Four additional top shareholders in Capricorn Energy Plc CNE.L are speaking out publicly against the natural gas producer's planned sale to NewMed Energy NWMDp.TA , arguing the deal undervalues the company's assets, the investors told Reuters.
** The U.S. Department of Justice is preparing to open an investigation into Adobe Inc's ADBE.O $20 billion takeover of Figma, Politico reported on Wednesday, citing four people with knowledge of the matter and a document it viewed.
** The attorneys general of Washington D.C., California and Illinois filed a lawsuit on Wednesday in a federal court seeking to block grocer Albertsons' ACI.N $4 billion dividend payout to shareholders before the closing of its proposed merger with rival Kroger Co KR.N .
