News: WC8 Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Oct 31 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 0930 GMT on Tuesday:

** Australia's Mineral Resources (MIN) acquired a 19.85% stake in Wildcat Resources (WC8) , a regulatory filing showed.

** Vodafone VOD.L will sell its Spanish business to Zegona Communications ZEG.L for 5 billion euros ($5.30 billion) in the second major deal by its new CEO to revamp a company struggling with little growth in mature markets.

** The Spanish sovereign fund SEPI is evaluating acquiring a stake in the country's largest telecom company Telefonica TEF.MC , it said in a filing to the stock market regulator.

** South African fashion and food retailer Woolworths WHLJ.J will buy a 93.45% stake in pet care retailer Absolute Pets from Sanlam Private Equity and Absolute's management, it said, stepping up a turf war for the country's affluent shoppers.

** Siemens Energy ENR1n.DE is considering selling a part of its 24% stake in Indian-listed Siemens Ltd SIEM.NS to former parent Siemens AG SIEGn.DE to shore up its balance sheet, two people familiar with the matter said.

** Asiana Airlines 020560.KS said it would reconvene a board meeting in early November to decide whether it should accept a merger proposal from Korean Air that includes the sale of its cargo operations to remedy EU antitrust concerns.

** Japan's top oil and gas producer Inpex 1605.T said it would buy a 30% stake in Japan Suiso Energy (JSE) in a bid to expand its clean energy usage and cut back on fossil fuels.

** Origin Energy's largest shareholder said it plans to vote against a Brookfield-led consortium's A$15.35 billion ($9.78 billion) takeover offer for the company, casting doubt on the bid's future weeks ahead of a shareholder vote on the deal.

** Top Australian wine producer Treasury Wine Estates (TWE) has agreed to a $900 million buyout of U.S. rival DAOU Vineyards, increasing its exposure to a market that it has long struggled to dominate amid uncertainty about stalled exports to China.

** Italy's Intesa Sanpaolo ISP.MI said it had bought Romania's First Bank from U.S. private equity fund JC Flowers, a week after crosstown rival UniCredit CRDI.MI also announced an acquisition in the eastern European country.

** EU antitrust regulators said they cleared Hitachi's 6501.T 1.7-billion-euro ($1.80 billion) bid for Thales' TCFP.PA GTS railway signalling business on condition the Japanese company sells assets in France and Germany, as it offered to do so.

** Ahold Delhaize AD.AS has agreed to buy Romanian grocery retailer Profi from private equity firm MidEuropa for 1.3 billion euros ($1.37 billion) in a deal that will more than double the company's operations in Romania.