The Japanese group SoftBank invests €223m in the agency WME-IMG, now valued at €4.9bn

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The Japanese group SoftBank Group Corp. has invested $250m (€223m) in WME-IMG LLC, the American career management, marketing and media rights agency, on 23/03/2016. The transaction would see the value of WME-IMG rise to $5.5bn (€4.9bn) according to the US economist magazine Bloomberg, on the same day. SoftBank Group has acquired a 4.5% stake in...


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