French financier in talks with Czech investor over Le Monde stake - press

Updated: Wed, Oct 17, 2018
10:15 pm
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Le Monde investor Matthieu Pigasse, who heads the Lazard investment bank in France, is in talks with Czech investor Daniel Kretinsky to sell him 40-49 percent of his shares in the French daily, Le Monde wrote on its website on Wednesday.

Pigasse has, jointly with French telecoms entrepreneur Xavier Niel, a controlling stake in Le Monde.

Le Monde says that Pigasse confirmed the information but that the newspaper were not able to reach Kretinsky or Niel for comment.

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