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By Nadezhda Tsydenova and Olga Popova MOSCOW (Reuters) – Yandex <YNDX.O> has doubled the size of its new share offering to $400 million, the Russian internet giant said on Thursday, which combined with private placements will raise $1 billion to finance acquisitions and growth. Yandex, co-founded by its Chief Executive Arkady Volozh in the 1990s, grew from a search engine to provide everything from online taxi services to food delivery, cinemas and a market place. This week, Yandex moved to… Source link

Yandex, the Russian internet company, has raised $800m through a sale of new shares to US investors and a private placement to a consortium of Russian oligarchs and VTB Bank. Goldman Sachs acted as the sole adviser on the placing. As part of an $800m share sale, Yandex sold $200m of shares to US investors and placed $600m of shares in a private placing to VTB Capital, Chelsea football club owner Roman Abramovich  and Treliscope Ltd, … Source link