Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

Dec 13 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1100 GMT on Wednesday:

** Troubled British construction firm Carillion said it had reached a deal to sell a large part of its UK healthcare facilities management business to outsourcing group Serco, helping it cut its debt by 41.4 million pounds.

** A unit of Thai Beverage has expressed interest in buying about 51 percent of Vietnam's Sabeco, the Vietnamese trade ministry, which is looking to sell a $5 billion stake in the nation's biggest brewer, said.

** Malaysia's AMMB Holdings (AmBank) Bhd is weighing a sale of its general insurance business as part of a move to exit non-core businesses and focus on its main bank operations, said three people with knowledge of the development.

** Former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page argued in court papers on Tuesday that AT&T Inc should not be permitted to buy CNN parent Time Warner Inc because there was a risk it would lead to "recklessness" in journalism.

** Danish brewer Carlsberg has edged closer to reaching an agreement with the Vietnamese government to increase its stake in Habeco, one of Vietnam's biggest brewers, which it hopes will speed up the process.

** Investment banks are vying to work with potential buyers or the French government on the sale of its majority stake in Aeroports de Paris (ADP), sources close to the matter said, in one of the largest infrastructure deals expected to come to market in 2018.

** Italy's largest motorway operator Atlantia is examining legal action to stay in the $20 billion bidding war for Spanish rival Abertis amid concerns it will be frozen out of the contest, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters.

** Polish refiner PKN Orlen has launched a voluntary tender offer for the remaining shares in its Czech downstream oil group Unipetrol, aiming to take full control and de-list it from the Prague bourse.

** Russian state lender Sberbank said it had divested its stake in Ukraine's VS Bank.

** Europe's biggest property firm Unibail-Rodamco is to buy U.S. and UK mall operator Westfield Corp for $16 billion, in a defensive move to create a global leader in a sector grappling with the online shopping challenge led by Amazon.

** Fairmount Santrol Holdings Inc said on Tuesday it would sell itself to Unimin Corp in a cash-and-stock deal to create one of the largest suppliers of sand for use in hydraulic fracturing to shale oil and gas producers.

** Reinsurer IRB Brasil Resseguros SA has exercised a put option to sell its stake in African Reinsurance Corp, known as Africa Re, the company said in a securities filing on Tuesday. (Compiled by Nikhil Subba in Bengaluru)