Billionaire Xavier Niel Offers $4.1 Billion to Buy Millicom

  • Niel’s Atlas is already Millicom’s biggest shareholder
  • Millicom’s board hasn’t made a formal recommendation
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Billionaire Xavier Niel offered to buy out other shareholders of Millicom International Cellular SA in a deal valuing the Latin American carrier at about $4.1 billion.

Niel’s Atlas Luxco Sarl is offering $24 a share in cash, it said in a statementBloomberg Terminal Monday, below the company’s Friday closing share price of $24.55. The shares held steady at market open on Monday.