News: KLS Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds T-Mobile, Canadian Pacific, Microsoft, Shell Plc; updates Purplebricks)

March 15 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Wednesday:

		** Telecom operator T-Mobile US Inc  TMUS.O  said it will acquire Ka'ena 
Corp, the owner of Ryan Reynolds-backed budget wireless provider Mint Mobile, 

for as much as $1.35 billion.

		** The Surface Transportation Board, which oversees U.S. freight 
railroads, said it had approved Canadian Pacific's  CP.TO  $31 billion deal to 

acquire U.S. railroad Kansas City Southern with conditions.

		** Microsoft  MSFT.O  signed a 10-year licensing deal to bring 
Activision's  ATVI.O  Call of Duty franchise to Japanese cloud gaming provider 

Ubitus, the latest move by the company to address regulatory worries about its bid for the games maker.

		** Purplebricks Group  PURP.L , Britain's biggest online-only estate 
agency, said it has held talks over a possible takeover offer with Strike Ltd 

but the smaller rival was not currently participating in the formal sale process.

		** Shell Plc  SHEL.L  has completed the sale of its stake in two 
offshore production-sharing contracts in Malaysia's Baram Delta to Petroleum 

Sarawak Exploration & Production Sdn.

** Australia's Kelsian Group Ltd (KLS) said it would acquire U.S.-based coach and bus operator All Aboard America! Holdings Inc in a $325 million deal.

** Danish brewer Carlsberg CARLb.CO denied a media report that said the company had agreed to sell its Russian business to Turkish rival Anadolu Efes AEFES.IS .

** Italian telecom operator Wind Tre is planning to spin off its network assets into a separate company as it resumed talks with Swedish private equity firm EQT EQTAB.ST over a potential sale, two sources familiar with the matter said.

** Indian shadow lender Shriram Finance SHMF.NS is looking to pare as much as 15% stake in its housing finance arm at a valuation of 10 billion rupees ($121.35 million), two senior sources with direct knowledge of the matter told Reuters.

** Helios Investment Partners has been working with advisers to sell a stake in Crown Agents Bank, a British provider of cross-border payments, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.

** Abu Dhabi-based artificial intelligence firm G42 acquired a $100 million plus stake in ByteDance, valuing the Chinese unlisted owner of TikTok at $220 billion, Bloomberg News reported late on Tuesday, citing people with knowledge of the deal.

** Albertsons Companies Inc ACI.N said on Tuesday it would divest some stores owned by the company and Kroger Co KR.N to obtain the regulatory clearance needed to go ahead with the merger of the two firms.