April 4 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Friday:
** A New Zealand regulator on Friday said it was investigating Canadian billionaire James Grenon's acquisition of a stake in media firm NZME NZM.NZ, citing a "reasonable possibility" of a breach of the country's takeover rules. nL3N3QI06D
** Brookfield Infrastructure Partners <BIP.N> is buying Colonial Pipeline, the largest U.S. fuel transportation system, in a deal valued at about $9 billion, including debt, the company said on Thursday. nL3N3QI04X
** Britain's competition regulator said on Friday it believes that remedies offered by aerospace equipment manufacturer Safran SAF.PA could resolve competition concerns relating to its acquisition of a part of aerospace business Collins. nL3N3QI0B1
** UK's Serica Energy SQZ.L said on Friday Britain's Takeover Panel has allowed to push back the 'put up or shut up' deadline for its potential deal with North Sea-focused oil producer EnQuest ENQ.L to May 2. nL3N3QI0PQ
** U.S. law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel and global legal giant Herbert Smith Freehills said in a joint statement on Friday that their partners voted to approve a merger, creating a 2,700-lawyer firm. nL2N3QG0QH
** Italian insurer Generali will not put up a fight to defend a planned asset management tie-up, if Rome's opposition stiffens once a government review of the deal starts, CEO Philippe Donnet said in a newspaper interview. nL5N3QI070
** French engine and aircraft equipment maker Safran SAF.PA on Friday secured the green light from EU antitrust regulators for its $1.8 billion bid for Collins Aerospace's flight controls business after pledging to sell a North American actuator business. nL5N3QI1B8
** Italy's Banco BPM BAMI.MI on Friday secured more than the two-third majority threshold set for its buyout offer for asset manager Anima Holding ANIM.MI required to reap the maximum benefits from the deal. nS8N3OK0C7
** President Donald Trump on Friday extended by 75 days a deadline for Chinese technology company ByteDance to sell U.S. assets of popular short video app TikTok to a non-Chinese buyer or face a ban that was supposed to have taken effect in January under a 2024 law. nL2N3QI0NE
(Compiled by Rajarshi Roy and Prakhar Srivastava in Bengaluru)
((Prakhar.srivastava2@thomsonreuters.com))
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