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    Warner Music Group Sold For $3.3 Billion to Russian Len Blavatnik

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    Post by Marc™ Fri May 06, 2011 6:53 pm

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    Warner Music Group sold for $3.3 billion to Access Industries' Len Blavatnik


    All it took was $3.3 billion for Len Blavatnik to snatch up Warner
    Music Group. The Russian billionaire might just take over EMI and
    combine the two companies.

    WMG will become a privately held company and its stock will no longer be traded on the New York Stock Exchange.


    Access Industries, a holding company founded by oil baron Len
    Blavatnik, won the auction to buy Warner Music Group Corp. for $3.3
    billion in cash, the companies announced Friday morning.

    Blavatnik edged out more than a dozen other suitors including Sony
    Music Group, supermarket magnate Ron Burkle, Platinum Equity, Live
    Nation Entertainment and investment firm Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts,
    whose unsolicited offer late last year kicked off the auction process.
    KKR's partner in the bidding was German music company Bertelsmann.

    The deal calls for Warner to receive $8.25 per share, a 34% premium
    over the company's average stock price over the last six weeks, the
    company said. It's also 75% higher than Warner's closing price on Jan.
    20, the day before the New York Times published news of the bidding.
    Warner's share closed at $7.90 on Thursday.

    Blavatnik, whose all-cash bid was the highest, had other advantages,
    said a source familiar with the sale. The Russian-born industrialist,
    who had been a Warner board member between 2004 and 2008, was also
    knowledgable about the company's operations and finances.

    More importantly, Blavatnik's offer had an edge over Sony and
    Bertelsmann in that it would not run into antitrust hurdles by
    combining with another music company in a market that is already
    concentrated in the hands of four companies -- Universal Music Group,
    Sony, EMI and Warner.

    The sale comes at a challenging time for the record industry, whose
    revenue has been ravaged in the last decade by piracy and a
    profileration of legal but free alternatives, including online radio
    services such as Pandora and Slacker.

    Another music company, London-based EMI, is expected to be put up for
    sale later this year, presenting Blavatnik with an opportunity to
    acquire the company and combine it with Warner to produce the world's
    largest music company.


    Warner Music Group sold for $3.3 billion to Access Industries' Len Blavatnik | Company Town | Los Angeles Times
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    Post by Nystyle709 Fri May 06, 2011 7:11 pm

    So this doesn't include the movie production company? Cause if not.....why would you spend that kind of money on this raggedy music business?
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    Post by Marc™ Fri May 06, 2011 7:18 pm

    Nystyle709 wrote:So this doesn't include the movie production company? Cause if not.....why would you spend that kind of money on this raggedy music business?

    Nope. Time Warner (which owns the Warner Bros. film/TV studios) sold off Warner Music Group to a group of private investors almost a decade ago....they haven't been affiliated with each other since. WMG is (was) independent from Bugs.

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