Deals of the day-Mergers and acquisitions

(Adds Envestnet, ITA Airways, Timberline Resources, Zee, Siemens Energy, FTI, Criteria, Severstal, DS Smith, Saxo Bank, Kimmeridge)

April 16 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 1945 GMT on:

** Envestnet, a U.S. software vendor with a market value of about $3.5 billion, is exploring options that could include a potential sale after receiving takeover interest, people familiar with the matter said.

** Lufthansa's new remedies on its ITA Airways stake buy are not markedly different from an earlier package rejected by EU antitrust regulators which have also discounted Ryanair as a rival in its scrutiny of the deal, people familiar with the matter said.

** Canadian miner McEwen Mining entered into a deal to acquire all outstanding shares of Timberline Resources TBR.PK that it doesn't already own, the companies said.

** Zee Entertainment Enterprises said on Tuesday it was withdrawing an application filed with an Indian company tribunal that was aimed at forcing Sony to merge its India unit with the company.

** Siemens AG's pension fund has cut its stake in Siemens Energy by nearly 3%, a filing showed.

** Germany's FTI Group on Tuesday signed an acquisition proposal from a consortium of investors led by US travel-focused fund Certares, which includes a 125 million euro ($132.83 million) investment in the company.

** Spanish holding vehicle Criteria is in discussions with an investor group that has been talking to some of Spanish energy provider Naturgy's core shareholders over a possible partnership agreement, Criteria said.

** Russian steelmaker Severstal has acquired a St Petersburg holding company that controls a majority stake in a joint venture previously owned by Spanish firm Windar Renovables.

** U.S.-based International Paper agreed to an all-share deal to buy DS Smith, valuing the British packaging firm at 5.8 billion pounds ($7.2 billion) and edging out a bid by Mondi

** Denmark's Saxo Bank is exploring a possible sale, 18 months after talks to merge with a blank-cheque company fell apart, four people familiar with the matter told Reuters.

** Kimmeridge Energy Management said it has withdrawn its proposal to combine its gas-producing assets in South Texas with SilverBow Resources. (Compiled by Pratyush Thakur and Priyanka.G in Bengaluru)