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Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Chrysaor, Teleology, Denizbank, Fox, CEFC; Updates Reckitt Benckiser, Rio Tinto)

March 22 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1400 GMT on Thursday:

** British consumer goods group Reckitt Benckiser has pulled out of talks to buy Pfizer's consumer healthcare business, strengthening rival bidder GlaxoSmithKline's hand.

** French media giant Vivendi is selling its stake in Ubisoft for 2 billion euros ($2.45 billion) to investors including Chinese tech titan Tencent, ending a potential takeover battle for the French video games maker.

** Israeli defence electronics firm Elbit Systems, said it was in the process of completing the acquisition of privately held U.S.-based Universal Avionics Systems Corp through an asset allocation agreement.

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** Britain's Stobart Group said it has scrapped plans to buy Flybe Group, adding the UK-based regional airline had rejected a bid and it had decided against making a higher offer.

** U.S. private equity firm Starwood Capital Group announced bids to acquire a quarter of Austrian property company CA Immo and a smaller stake in its rival Immofinanz, sending shares in both higher.

** Global miner Rio Tinto agreed to sell its 75 percent stake in a Queensland coal project to Australia's Whitehaven Coal for $200 million, as part of a strategic decision to exit coal and focus on growth in iron ore, copper and aluminium businesses.

** Fans will be glued to the "March Madness" college basketball tournament as the joint owner of rights for the games, Time Warner Inc, goes before a judge on Thursday to defend a proposed takeover by AT&T Inc.

** Chrysaor, which bought a portfolio of Royal Dutch Shell assets last year, said on Thursday it would acquire stakes in three ageing North Sea fields from Spirit Energy.

** Rio Tinto is to sell its 75 percent stake in a Queensland project to Australia's Whitehaven Coal for $200 million, in its second deal this week to shed coal assets.

** Teleology Holdings has agreed to buy 9mobile, Nigeria's fourth-largest telecoms provider, the investment firm said.

** Emirates NBD could agree to buy Turkey's Denizbank within weeks, sources said, after intense lobbying by the Turkish bank to convince President Tayyip Erdogan of the benefits of the potential $5.3 billion deal despite a diplomatic rift.

** Four high-profile British lawmakers have called for Rupert Murdoch's Twenty-First Century Fox to be blocked from buying Sky, saying the mogul will be able to influence its news output despite promises to the contrary.

** Chinese conglomerate CEFC had already started paying for a stake in Russian oil giant Rosneft when the economic crime police took its chairman Ye Jianming away, halting the $9.1 billion deal in its tracks, according to three sources close to the matter. (Compiled by Karan Nagarkatti in Bengaluru)