Deals
Alibaba Buys Back 20% Stake From Yahoo for $7.1 Billion
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Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., China’s largest e-commerce provider, agreed to repurchase about a 20 percent stake in itself from U.S. Web portal Yahoo! Inc. for about $7.1 billion ahead of a potential initial public offering.
Yahoo will receive at least $6.3 billion in cash and as much as $800 million in newly issued Alibaba preferred stock, the companies said in a statement today. At the time of an IPO, Alibaba will be required to either buy back a quarter of Yahoo’s current stake or let Yahoo sell the shares. The deal values Alibaba at about $35 billion.