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The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1030 GMT on Tuesday:

- Japanese financial services firm Orix Corp said on Tuesday it has agreed to buy Dutch asset manager Robeco from its owner, Rabobank, for 1.935 billion euros ($2.58 billion) in a cash-and-stock deal.

- Office Depot Inc, the No.2 U.S. office supply retailer, is in advanced talks to merge with smaller rival OfficeMax Inc and a deal could come as early as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Monday.

- TNT Express, whose $7 billion takeover by United Parcel Service was blocked last month, reported a further loss on Monday, saying it would sell units in Brazil and China and cut costs as it prepares for a future alone.

- Abu Dhabi's Aldar Properties, which plans to merge with smaller rival Sorouh Real Estate, on Tuesday said its largest shareholder Mubadala converted bonds in the company to shares, boosting its capital by nearly 10 percent.

- Glencore-controlled zinc producer Kazzinc and Kazakh investment company Verny Capital have purchased two gold deposits in northern Kazakhstan with combined reserves of some 70 tonnes for about $200 million, Verny Capital said on Tuesday.

- Swiss drugmaker Roche said on Monday it would work with privately held U.S. company Chiasma to develop and market a treatment for growth hormone disorders in a deal worth almost $600 million in upfront and milestone payments.

- Shares in Jet Airways fell as much as 6.8 percent on Monday, a day after the chairman of Etihad Airways said the Abu Dhabi-based carrier needed to revise the terms of a pending deal to buy a stake in the Indian airline.

- The deal would be the first since India relaxed ownership rules in September and allowed foreign carriers to buy up to 49 percent in local carriers, which are battling stiff competition and high operating costs.

- SCMP Group Ltd, the publisher of South China Morning Post newspaper, said on Monday it is in talks regarding the possible acquisition of a group of media companies in Hong Kong. It did not identify targets.

- A key Indonesian investor has sold his 10 percent holding in Bumi Plc only days before a key vote on the miner's future, threatening Nat Rothschild's hopes of victory in the battle to win control of the company.

- Natixis plans to shed its 20 percent stake in a network of savings banks tied to its parent company BPCE in a deal that will free up capital and allow for a one-off 2 billion-euro ($2.7 billion) dividend to shareholders.

- Bolivian President Evo Morales, who has tightened state control over the nation's small economy since taking office in 2006, nationalized an airports operator owned by Spanish infrastructure company Abertis on Monday.

- Telco, the holding company that controls Telecom Italia, is gearing up to write down its 22.45 percent stake in the Italian telecoms company by at least 20 percent, two sources close to the situation said on Monday.

- Mexico's Grupo Gigante on Monday did not rule out a possible acquisition of the 50 percent stake in the Mexican unit of U.S. office-supply store chain Office Depot that it does not already own following a report it was in talks to do so.

- Media group Independent News & Media has agreed to sell its South African unit to a consortium of investors for 2 billion rand ($226 million), the Irish company said on Sunday.