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Yandex, Polymetal shareholders set to approve major Russian exit deals

Yandex, Polymetal shareholders set to approve major Russian exit deals

By Alexander Marrow LONDON (Reuters) – Two of Russia’s largest corporate exit deals since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine are up for shareholder approval on Thursday, with “Russia’s Google” Yandex and major mining assets set to pass to Russian ownership in transactions totalling around $9 billion. Dutch-registered Yandex NV, struck a 475-billion-rouble ($5.27 billion) deal to sell its local subsidiary – Russia’s most valuable technology asset – to Russian investors, while precious metals producer… Source link

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Yandex Reaches $5 Billion Deal to Exit Russia

Yandex Reaches $5 Billion Deal to Exit Russia

The parent firm of Russia’s most prominent technology company, Yandex, said it has agreed to sell all its assets in the country for about $5 billion, which would be one of the largest corporate exits from Russia since its invasion of Ukraine. The invasion had roiled Yandex — often referred to as “Russia’s Google” — and turned its attempts to navigate between the Kremlin’s authoritarian policies and a Western blockade of the Russian economy into the most dramatic example of the… Source link

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Yandex Strikes Record $5.2 Billion Wartime Deal to Exit Russia

Yandex Strikes Record $5.2 Billion Wartime Deal to Exit Russia

Yandex NV reached an agreement to sell its Russian business, including the nation’s most popular search engine, for about $5.2 billion, the highest-valued deal yet to exit Russia following the invasion of Ukraine. The divorce, which took more than a year to negotiate, opens the way for Yandex, which has been registered in the Netherlands since 2007, to develop some projects abroad after divesting Russian units that had generated most of its revenue. Yandex management will get the biggest… Source link

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In biggest corporate exit since Ukraine war, search engine Yandex’s owner to leave Russia in $5.2 billion deal | Business News

In biggest corporate exit since Ukraine war, search engine Yandex’s owner to leave Russia in $5.2 billion deal | Business News

Yandex NV has struck a 475-billion-rouble ($5.21 billion) deal to sell what has been dubbed “Russia’s Google” to a group of Russian investors, marking the biggest corporate exit from the country since Moscow invaded Ukraine almost two years ago. The Kremlin-engineered deal would see Russia’s largest technology player fall entirely under Russian ownership, including a fund ultimately owned by oil major Lukoil, and cement Yandex’s departure from Western tech circles. Once seen as one… Source link

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