Mediaset, return the purchases to the Square’s Business – The Republic

MILAN – Return purchases to Piazza Affari, after the announcement of Vivendi wanted to get up to 30% of the share capital of Mediaset. At the beginning of the bargaining, the title failed to do, the price then end the auction of volatility (follow the title). The French have made know to reach the threshold beyond which you must launch an offer on the whole capital. The quota of 30% puts it in a corner of the Fininvest of Silvio Berlusconi because it would be, however, enough to block any agreement of Mediaset with another foreign company. Fininvest has no way out, because if he wanted to consolidate its position with the purchase on the market guilty of herself in the obligation to launch an offer on the whole capital, an operation t hat the current value of the Scholarship is € 4.2 billion.

After the meeting between Pier Silvio Berlusconi and the ceo of Vivendi, Arnaud de Puyfontaine, in which there was no willingness to treat, the French have decided to go to the battle total. Previously they had done know want to go up to 20%. Now raise the bar. The clash between the two media company was born

from the failure to reach an agreement for the sale of Mediaset Premium to the French. Vivendi, had submitted a bid, but then it was difficult. And Fininvest had launched an offensive legal, without reaching a settlement. From here, the move hostile to the French. In a recent interview, De Puyfontaine said it would buy Stock to be able to sit at a table and deal with them.

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