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Sony, Zee Sign Definitive Merger Pact Amid Shareholder Spat

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Sony, Zee Sign Definitive Merger Pact Amid Shareholder Spat

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Public shareholders will have the remaining 45.15% as part of the definitive agreement.\nThe transaction will help expand Sony’s media business in the world’s second-most populous country where Zee commands 17% of the media and entertainment market. The announcement comes three months after Zee and Sony’s non-binding pact was made public on Sept. 22 that escalated a takeover battle between founder Subhash Chandra’s family and Atlanta-based Invesco Developing Markets Fund, which owns a 18% stake, the largest chunk of equity.\nZee’s board also approved the appointment of Punit Goenka, Chandra’s son, as the chief executive officer of the newly created entity, the filing said. Zee’s founders also agreed to cap the equity they may own in the combined company to 20% of its outstanding shares, according to the terms of the deal.\nDoubling Down\nThe latest development shows Sony and Chandra are doubling down on their efforts to close this deal. While Chandra is keen to retain his family’s influence on the indebted media firm he founded in 1992, acquiring Zee will give Sony access to its more than 1.3 billion viewers globally, and a vast library of local Indian language content that goes back to the 1990s. Zee’s own streaming platform is also a leader among local players with almost 73 million monthly active users as of end-March.\nZee’s shares were trading1.8% higher at 9:17 a.m. in Mumbai, pushing this year’s advance to almost 58%.\nInvesco, unhappy with the way Zee was run, has been persistently seeking a shareholder meeting to fire Goenka from the board and as CEO.\nZee founders have instead blamed the U.S. fund of having a “certain larger design” in forcing a shareholder meeting. 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Sony, Zee Sign Definitive Merger Pact Amid Shareholder Spat

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