Russian Internet holding company Mail. ru preparing for an IPO. According to Kommersant, the parent company of LLC ' Mail. py ' in talks with Citibank, Goldman Sachs and Credit Suisse to offer shares on the London Stock Exchange this summer.
According to the near- Mail. ru sources, the company expects to capitalize $ 2 billion, although half a year ago, the holding cost half the price. Then the South African media holding Naspers Limited announced the purchase of 2.6 % stake in Mail. ru for $ 26 million. But earlier, in January 2007, Naspers acquired a 30% stake in the portal for the U.S. $ 165 million, considering the whole business in 533 million. It turns out that for 10 months Mail. ru rose by 1.8 times.
For information about the output of Mail. ru on the stock exchange did not confirm nor in the Mail. ru, no partner companies. Manager, Media Relations Citigroup Dmitry Sulima neither confirmed nor denied the participation of the bank's vice president of marketing for Mail. ru Anna Artamonova yesterday refused to announce specific plans, noting that the holding company ... Knowledge of the situation showed the commercial director of Rambler Media, Anna Znamenskaya. ... ru going to the London Stock Exchange this summer, and ...
It should be noted that ' Yandex ' announced plans to place shares in July last year, but the exact dates are known only in February this. Today, Vedomosti reported the details: During the initial public offering on the NASDAQ ' Yandex ' expects to sell shares at $ 1.5-2 billion, and a preliminary assessment of the company amounts to 5 billion.
' RBC ' conducted IPO in 2002, and the ' Rambler ' - in 2005 placed the shares on the London Stock Exchange. At the same time ' Kaspersky Lab ' IPO postponed until 2009.
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