The company Mail.Ru bought 48.01% “VKontakte”. The price for which the holding of Alisher Usmanov bought a stake UCP, is 1.47 billion dollars.
The transaction was closed on September 16, the sellers of shares made Blesmir Development Limited and Palagon Limited. Thus, Mail.ru fully consolidated “VKontakte” , the group said in a statement. Note that after the transaction value of depositary receipts Mail.ru Group in the course of trading on the London Stock Exchange increased by 6.7% – up to $ 32 per share.
At the beginning of September, the newspaper “Vedomosti” wrote that 48% owned by the UCP, estimated at $ 1.4 billion. Thus, value of the entire company is now about 2.91 billion dollars .
We recall that in December 2013 the general director of “MegaFon” Ivan Tavrin bought 12% “VKontakte” at her founder Paul Durov, but the deal became known only in the end of January 2014. Then the cost of the social network was estimated at 4.3 billion dollars. In March this package was sold Tavrin company Mail.Ru Group, owned by Alisher Usmanov, who at the time owned 39.99% “VKontakte”, is managed by Paul Durov.
Share a conflict between UCP and Mail.Ru Group stretched from April 2013 , when the fund gained 48% “VKontakte” at the co-founders of the social network Vyacheslav Mirilashvili and Lev Leviev. The transaction took place the next day after a search of the office of “VKontakte” in the case of collision Pavel Durov on Inspector DPS near the House of Singer.
Becoming a shareholder “VKontakte” UCP fund gradually began to make a complaint to Durov Related waste of company money, using its human and financial resources to create a messenger Telegram and competition with the services the most “VKontakte”. In April 2014, an entrepreneur and fund filed against each other in court: According Durov, the transaction for the sale of 48% was carried out illegally.
In December 2012, one of the wealthiest businessmen in Russia – Alisher Usmanov, the controlling company Mail.Ru Group, announced his desire to increase its stake in the social network “VKontakte”. A year later he was already considering the possibility of withdrawing its founder Pavel Durov as CEO if the claims are true UCP.
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