Mediaset: Currency legal action against Vivendi up to 1.5 billion (ilsole24ore.com) – BBC

15:12 (Il Sole 24 Ore Thomson Plus) – Milan, July 26 – Between Mediaset and France’s Vivendi and ‘break. A break which, as reconstructed from the Sun site 24 hours (www.ilsole24ore.com), is flowing in legal action by the threat of a lawsuit billionaire. The request for Cologno Monzese damage, in fact, after back Vivendi purchase of premium, would be around 1 to 1.5 billion euro. This morning, Mediaset in a statement said that the French group did not want more ‘all pay TV, but only 20% pointing instead to get to hold in three years about 15% of the capital of the group that owns the networks of Alfa Romeo through a convertible bond. Throughout the morning there ‘was a give and take between the two companies’ with Mediaset heavily down at Piazza Affari (now the title has lost 7% after arriving

to lose more than 14% and be suspended for excessive downward ). At a meeting in Milan with the Italian press the CEO of Vivendi, Arnaud de Puyfontaine, and is’ still was optimistic about a possible deal. red- (RADIOCOR) 26/07/16 15:12:16 (0453) ENE 5