(Adds: Meyer Werft, First Busey, Talgo, Aware Super Updates:...

(Adds: Meyer Werft, First Busey, Talgo, Aware Super Updates: Blackstone, Edgar Bronfman Jr, Zee Entertainment Enterprises)

Aug 27 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1400 GMT on Tuesday:

		** The German government and state of Lower Saxony are 
likely to acquire about 80% of Meyer Werft to secure the future 

of the company, one of the world's largest cruise shipbuilders, two sources familiar with the situation told Reuters.

		** Regional lender First Busey  BUSE.O  has agreed to 
buy smaller rival CrossFirst Bankshares  CFB.O  in a $916.8 

million all-stock deal, in yet another consolidation in the industry since the March 2023 turmoil after three banks collapsed last year.

		** Two bidding groups led by Blackstone and IFM 
Investors lodged final offers to buy Australian data centre 

group AirTrunk in a transaction worth about A$20 billion ($13.55 billion), according to two sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

		** The Spanish government has decided to reject a 619 
million-euro ($691 million) takeover bid for Spanish train maker 

Talgo TLGO.MC by the Hungarian consortium Ganz-Mavag due to national security concerns, the economy ministry said.

		** Media veteran Edgar Bronfman Jr on Monday withdrew 
from the race for Paramount Global  PARA.O , clearing the way 

for Skydance Media to take control of Shari Redstone's media empire and ending one of the most chaotic media bidding wars in recent history.

		** India's Zee Entertainment Enterprises  ZEE.NS  and 
Sony's  6758.T  unit in the country have agreed to withdraw all 

claims against each other related to their failed $10 billion merger, Zee said.

		** Australian pension fund Aware Super said it has 
acquired a minority stake in London-headquartered bandwidth 

infrastructure company euNetworks, in a bid to tap into the artificial intelligence boom.

** Britain's Harbour Energy HBR.L said it expects to complete the acquisition of Wintershall Dea's assets in early September, versus its previous forecast of early in the fourth quarter of the year.

** Australian pension fund Aware Super said it has acquired a minority stake in London-headquartered bandwidth infrastructure company euNetworks.

** Warburg Pincus and Australian real estate group Lendlease (LLC) said their joint venture has acquired property assets in Singapore for S$1.6 billion ($1.2 billion).

** Shareholders of South Korea's SK Innovation 096770.KS , parent of the country's largest oil refiner and battery maker SK On, approved a merger with energy affiliate SK E&S, Yonhap reported.

** Drug distributor McKesson MCK.N said on Monday it would buy a controlling stake in community cancer center Florida Cancer Specialists & Research Institute's (FCS) business and administrative services unit for $2.49 billion in cash.