{"id":4141,"date":"2006-03-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"vodafone-draws-buyers-interest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2006\/vodafone-draws-buyers-interest.html","title":{"rendered":"Vodafone draws buyer&#8217;s Interest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pasadena Star-News &#8211; <span>Investment firms Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Cerberus Partners LP are readying a roughly $15 billion bid for a Japanese unit of British mobile-phone operatorVodafone Group PLC, according to a person familiar with the discussions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>Banks that may help finance the purchase, which could be in the form of a leveraged buyout, include ABN Amro Holding NV, JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. and Morgan Stanley, according to the person,  who declined to be identified because the negotiations were still under way.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>  <span>Providence, which manages $9 billion for investors such as pension funds, has long been an investor in media and communications businesses. The firm was a founding partner of Voicestream,  which eventually became T-Mobile USA<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pasadenastarnews.com\/business\/ci_3609883\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pasadena Star-News &#8211; Investment firms Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Cerberus Partners LP are readying a roughly $15 billion bid for a Japanese unit of British mobile-phone operatorVodafone Group PLC, according to a person familiar with the discussions. Banks that [&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-4141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141","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=4141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}