{"id":3368,"date":"2005-09-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-09-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"court-rules-in-favour-of-tele2-bid-for-versatel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2005\/court-rules-in-favour-of-tele2-bid-for-versatel.html","title":{"rendered":"Court rules in favour of Tele2 bid for Versatel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>  AMSTERDAM, Sept 27 (Reuters) &#8211; A Dutch court on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for a friendly 1.34 billion euro ($1.61 billion) takeover offer by Swedish telecoms firm Tele2 (TEL2b.ST: <a href=  \"..\/stocks\/overview.aspx?symbol=TEL2b.ST\">Quote<\/a>, <a href=\"..\/stocks\/CompanyProfile.aspx?symbol=TEL2b.ST\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=\"..\/stocks\/ResearchReports.aspx?symbol=TEL2b.ST\">Research<\/a>) of  rival Versatel (VERS.AS: <a href=\"..\/stocks\/overview.aspx?symbol=VERS.AS\">Quote<\/a>, <a href=\"..\/stocks\/CompanyProfile.aspx?symbol=VERS.AS\">Profile<\/a>, <a href=  \"..\/stocks\/ResearchReports.aspx?symbol=VERS.AS\">Research<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>  The Amsterdam commercial court ruled that Tele2&#8217;s offer conformed with Dutch law, denying a request for an injunction made by a group of hedge funds that holds 13.6 percent of Versatel shares.<\/p>\n<p>  The court said it had no indication that major Versatel shareholder Talpa Capital &#8212; the investment vehicle of billionaire TV producer John de Mol &#8212; had received special benefits above the 2.20  euro per share offer price, an allegation Versatel, Tele2 and Talpa have denied.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"http:\/\/c.moreover.com\/click\/here.pl?b397604970&amp;r=MSNnews\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMSTERDAM, Sept 27 (Reuters) &#8211; A Dutch court on Tuesday gave the go-ahead for a friendly 1.34 billion euro ($1.61 billion) takeover offer by Swedish telecoms firm Tele2 (TEL2b.ST: Quote, Profile, Research) of rival Versatel (VERS.AS: Quote, Profile, Research). The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}