(Adds: Pfizer Inc, CNH Industrial, Advent International, Synlab Updates: JPMorgan Chase & Co, Hyundai Motor Co)
March 13 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Monday :
** JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N is in talks to acquire SVB Financial Group SIVB.O in a deal that would excludecommercial banking unit Silicon Valley Bank, which is currently under U.S. control, Axios reported on Monday, citing sources.
** Hyundai Motor Co 005380.KS said it has agreed to a potential acquisition of General Motors' GM.N plant in India,a move that could finally allow the U.S. automaker to exit a country where it stopped making cars in 2017.
** Pfizer Inc PFE.N struck a roughly $43 billion deal for Seagen Inc SGEN.O to bulk up its cancer treatmentsportfolio, as the drugmaker braces for a steep fall in COVID-19 product sales and loss of exclusivity for some top sellers.
** Italian-American vehicle maker CNH Industrial CNHI.MI has acquired U.S. company Augmenta, valuing itsstrategic partner at $110 million, in a bid to help farmers harness technology to increase the effectiveness of crop spraying.
** Buyout firm Advent International is among a list of firms that remain in contention to buy sandwich chain Subway,Sky News reported on Monday.
** German laboratory equipment producer Synlab SYAB.DE said that UK private equity firm Cinven had submitted anon-binding offer to fully take over the company at 10 euros per share.
** 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.
** 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.