News: IHR Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

March 13 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1030 GMT on Monday :

** Finance minister Jeremy Hunt said the rescue of SVB's UK arm by HSBC was necessary to help protect some of Britain's most important technology companies.

** France's Sanofi SASY.PA has agreed to acquire Provention Bio PRVB.N for $2.9 billion to bolster its work on type 1 diabetes therapy and to strengthen its drug pipeline following development setbacks.

** Qualtrics International Inc XM.O said it will go private after the customer survey software maker's controlling shareholder, SAP SE SAPG.DE , accepted a $12.5 billion bid from an investor consortium led by Silver Lake and Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB).

** Holcim HOLN.S announced a deal to acquire Mexican hardware wholesaler INDAR, the building materials company's latest acquisition in the Americas.

** Shares of Australian HR-services provider IntelliHR (IHR) jumped as much as 14% to hit a near one-year high, after suitor Humanforce Holdings raised its takeover offer by 50% to A$56.1 million ($37.38 million) to outbid a rival.

** JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N and PNC Financial Service Group Inc PNC.N are among those in talks about acquiring SVB Financial Group SIVB.O in a deal that would exclude its commercial banking unit Silicon Valley Bank that is currently under U.S. control, Axios reported citing sources.

** The Indian arm of Hyundai Motor Co 005380.KS said it had signed a term sheet to buy General Motors Co's GM.N plant in the western state of Maharashtra.

** Asia-focussed telecoms tower firm Edotco Group, its Malaysian parent Axiata AXIA.KL and a Japanese backer are in talks with investors for stake sales, in a deal that could raise about $1.2 billion, four sources familiar with the matter said.

** Activist investor Carl Icahn is preparing a proxy fight at Illumina Inc ILMN.O , arguing that the life science maker's acquisition of Grail Inc GRAL.O cost its shareholders roughly $50 billion, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.

** S&P Global Commodity Insights said it has acquired UK-based technology firm Tradenet and its live vessel-tracking platform Market Intelligence Network (MINT) to bolster its capability to track and analyse commodity shipments.

** HYBE Co Ltd 352820.KS , the agency representing top-selling South Korean boy band BTS, dropped its plan to take control of K-pop pioneer SM Entertainment Co Ltd 041510.KQ , the company said on Sunday.

** SoftBank-owned lender OakNorth Bank is in talks to buy the British unit of failed U.S. firm Silicon Valley Bank, Sky News reported on Sunday.

** The Indian government may put a plan to sell part of its stake in Hindustan Zinc (HZL) on hold HZNC.NS unless the company calls off the nearly $3 billion cash acquisition of two Vedanta Group subsidiaries, a senior government source said.

** Vietnam Prosperity Joint Stock Commercial Bank VPB.HM is nearing a deal to sell a 15% stake to Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc 8316.T for $1.4 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Saturday citing people familiar with the transaction.