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UK's Balfour Beatty and Carillion in $5.1 bln merger talks -report

Reuters - UK Focus

July 24 (Reuters) - Two of Britain's biggest construction firms, Balfour Beatty (Other OTC: BAFBF - news) and Carillion Plc (LSE: CLLN.L - news) are in detailed discussions for a 3 billion pound ($5.09 billion) merger, Sky News reported citing sources.

The news service said that if successfully completed, the deal would put the merged group on course for entry into the FTSE-100 index. (http://bit.ly/1pg4g86)

Sky said the two groups were likely to come under pressure from Britain's mergers watchdog, to confirm their discussions as soon as Friday, although a deal is far from certain to be finalised and could take until September to be formally announced.

Balfour Beatty and Carillion could not be reach immediately.

($1 = 0.5889 British Pounds) (Reporting by Aashika Jain in Bangalore; Editing by David Gregorio)