(Adds Apax Partners, FGV Holdings Bhd, Rogers Communications and NMC Health)
March 16 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1330 GMT on Tuesday:
** Funds advised by Apax Partners said they sealed an agreement to buy Italian IT services group Lutech in a deal valuing the group at 500 million euros ($597.35 million) including debt, a source with knowledge of the matter said. Shares in Malaysia's FGV Holdings Bhd FGVH.KL closed almost 21% higher after state-owned Felda failed in its bid to take the world's largest crude palm oil producer private. Abu Dhabi's sovereign fund, Mubadala, is considering buying NMC Health's core hospital business, three sources familiar with the matter told Reuters, emerging as another suitor of the troubled hospital group. Rogers Communications Inc's efforts to secure its C$20 billion ($16 billion) acquisition of Shaw Communications Inc could be insufficient to overcome regulatory hurdles and political opposition amid concerns Canadians face some of the world's highest phone bills. Private equity firm Kelso & Co is exploring a sale of Resolute Investment Managers which could value the multi-brand financial advisory firm at more than $1.5 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said. U.S. drugmaker AbbVie Inc (NYSE:ABBV) ABBV.N is in discussions to sell a roughly $5 billion portfolio of women's drugs acquired last year through its $63 billion purchase of Botox maker Allergan (NYSE:AGN) Plc, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters. Australian real estate developer Dexus DXS.AX said it had struck a deal to merge an unlisted property fund with a diversified real estate investment fund run by AMP Capital AMP.AX . Saudi Arabia's Almarai 2280.SE , the Gulf's largest dairy company, said it had agreed to buy frozen bakery item manufacturer and producer Bakemart in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain for an enterprise value of 93.5 million dirham ($25.5 million). South Korea's SK Telecom 017670.KS , retailer Shinsegae Group and private equity firm MBK Partners were among those that entered non-binding, preliminary bids for the sale of eBay Inc's EBAY.O South Korean business, the telecom company and two sources with knowledge of the matter said. Canadian buyout firm Peloton Capital Management and Stephen Smith, the CEO of First National Financial Corp FN.TO , said they acquired proxy advisor Glass Lewis from the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board and Alberta Investment Management Corp. Wizz Air's WIZZ.L largest investor, Indigo Partners, sold about half its stake in the Hungary-based low-cost airline to institutional investors, a statement said, raising gross proceeds of around 400 million pounds ($553 million).