Polish billionaire Czarnecki in bank takeover?
PR dla Zagranicy
Roberto Galea
13.05.2015 10:56
One of Poland's richest people is leading a bid takeover of local bank Alior, financed by a group of German and Japanese investors, the Puls Biznesu daily reports.
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The daily writes that Leszek Czarnecki is in the final stages of setting up a legal, financial and banking team to conduct due diligence of Alior Bank, a medium-sized bank in Poland.
Czarnecki is being co-financed by Talanx and Meiji Yasuda, insurers from Germany and Japan respectively.
Puls Biznesu reports that the Raiffeisen and BPH Bank might also be up for grabs.
The Reuters news agency confirmed that French financier Romain Zaleski plans on offloading his 25-percent stake he owns in Alior via the Carlo Tassara holding company. It is understood that Czarnecki is understood to be interested in this stake.
Czarnecki already owns Getin Noble, a bank about double the size of Alior. On Wednesday, the shares of Getin (GNB) on the Warsaw Stock Exchange dropped by 1.2 percent.
Puls Biznesu adds that if the takeover goes through, Getin would control a banking empire worth PLN 190 billion. (rg)