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(68,868 posts) Mon Mar 17, 2014, 03:23 PM Mar 2014

(Russian) Billionaire Fridman’s L1 Buys RWE Unit for $7.1 Billion

L1 Energy, the investment vehicle of Russia’s fourth-richest man Mikhail Fridman, agreed to buy RWE AG (RWE)’s Dea oil and gas unit, gaining assets in the U.K., Germany and the North Sea.

The sale values Dea at about 5.1 billion euros ($7.1 billion), including debt, Germany’s largest power generator said in a statement yesterday. The deal is the first for LetterOne, the group set up by Fridman, 49, and co-investor German Khan last year to invest part of $14 billion they gained from selling a stake in the Moscow-based TNK-BP oil venture.

Apparently he's not terribly worried about EU sanctions.

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