Article: Lehman Bros buys Kirch pay TV stake.(Brief Article)

US investment bank Lehman Bros has acquired 2.4 per cent stake in Kirch Pay TV for DM 400m ($175m), valuing German pay TV venture at DM 16.3bn ($7.1bn). Announcement comes hot on heels of Prince Al Waleed and Capital Research & Management buying five per cent non-voting stake for $351m. Kirch had previously sold off its stake in UK's BSkyB in August (see 2000/235a1). Kirch (Germany; +49/89 9956 2324; www.kirchgruppe.de) has raised $1.4bn in past weeks for investment in Premiere World to ...

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