Glance-UPDATE 2-Deals of the day -- mergers and acquisitions

(Adds General Motors Co, Playboy Enterprises Inc, GVT and others) Nov 13 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions disposals involving European, U.S. and Asian companies were reported by 2100 GMT on Friday. ** Liberty Global, the international cable operator controlled by John Malone, has agreed to buy Unitymedia from a private equity group for $3 billion in its first German acquisition. (To read more, click on ) ** A 5 percent stake sale in state-run Indian power producer NTPC could fetch the government 81 billion rupees ($1.7 billion), Sunil Mitra, a senior finance ministry official, said. ** U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital is finalising a roughly 100 billion yen ($1.1 billion) deal to buy Japanese telemarketer Bellsystem24 from Citigroup Inc, three sources familiar with the the matter said. ** The Government of Singapore Investment Corp (GIC) said it has bought 3 million 'Class A' shares of Hyatt Hotels Corp , which raised $950 million this month in an initial public offering. ** Lafarge, the world's largest cement maker, and Shui On Construction and Materials Ltd are set to spin off their cement joint venture, aiming to raise $500 million-$600 million from a Hong Kong initial public offering in 2010, sources close to the matter said. ** Playboy Enterprises Inc is in talks with Jim Griffiths, a former entertainment president at Playboy, and private equity firm Golden Gate Capital, to sell itself for about $300 million, a source familiar with the matter said. ** Nortel Networks Corp said that, in light of discussions with interested parties, it will delay the auction of its global optical networking and carrier ethernet businesses. ** Poland's leading refiner PKN Orlen has shortlisted three bidders for its chemical arm Anwil who will conduct due diligence of the unit, Chief Financial Officer Slawomir Jedrzejczyk said. ** Digital TV company Kudelski said it had bought about 60 percent of the shares in OpenTV Corp it had not already owned for $1.55 a share, taking its voting rights to 91 percent. ** France's Vivendi said that it has bought 37.9 percent of Brazilian telecom company GVT and has irrevocable options to buy another 19.6 percent of the company. COPYRIGHT Copyright Thomson Reuters 2009. All rights reserved.

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