Yahoo Finance Blackstone, GIC and Others Sell £1.6 Billion Stake in LSEG
(Bloomberg) -- A consortium of investors including Blackstone Inc. offloaded shares worth about £1.6 billion ($2 billion) in London Stock Exchange Group Plc, exiting a stake the group inherited when the bourse bought data services firm Refinitiv in 2021.
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York Holdings, whose backers include Blackstone and affiliates of the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, GIC Special Investments Pte. and Thomson Reuters, sold roughly 17.3 million voting ordinary shares in LSEG at £91.50 each via a placing to institutional investors, according to a statement Wednesday.
The selling consortium is made up of the former owners of Refinitiv, the firm that LSEG acquired for $27 billion three years ago. The placing represents a 3.3% economic and voting interest in the data provider.
LSEG will not receive any proceeds from the placing, according to the statement. Thomson Reuters will no longer hold any interest in the company, according to the statement. About 9.4 million shares owned by the York entities are subject to call options sold indirectly by BCP York, an entity owned by a group affiliated with Blackstone, the statement said.
“Following successful completion of the placing, the consortium will no longer hold an interest in the company, other than the BCP York Option Shares, and the relationship agreement will terminate in accordance with its terms,” another filing said on Tuesday before the transaction.
Barclays, Bank of America, Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley arranged the sale.
Bloomberg LP, the parent company of Bloomberg News, competes with Refinitiv to provide financial news, data and information.
(Updates with sale price.)
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