PPF Offers Buyout Minority Shareholders in O2 Czech, CETIN
June 08 2015 - 8:34AM
Dow Jones News
By Leos Rousek
PRAGUE--PPF Group, a Czech financial firm, on Monday said it had
offered to buy out the remaining shares in both units of the
recently split telecommunications operator O2 Czech Republic
(BAATELEC.PR).
PPF, owned by the richest Czech, Petr Kellner, controls over 80%
of O2 Czech assets, comprising of the namesake operator and its
infrastructure division Ceska Telekomunikacni Infrastruktura, or
CETIN.
PPF, which bought the majority stake in O2 Czech from Spain's
Telefonica SA (TEF) for $3.3 billion in 2014, offered 78 koruna
($3.2) and CZK176 a share each for O2 Czech and CETIN
respectively.
-Write to Leos Rousek at leos.rousek@wsj.com