In January 2023 and in response to market speculation, the Millicom International Board of Directors established that is discussing a possible acquisition of all of Millicom’s outstanding shares with Apollo Global Management and Claure Group.
Although the company had indicated that there is no certainty that a transaction will materialize or the terms, timing or form of any potential transaction, the stakeholders in the European firm are la private equity firm Apollo Global Management and Claure Groupof the Bolivian businessman Marcelo Claure.
Precisely in Claure Group, he will seek to stay with the company after serving as CEO of Sprint and being involved in the merger of this operator with T-Mobile.
Marcelo Cataldo, is the president of Tigo Colombia
According to reports from the Financial Times and Bloomberg, the potential acquisition deal would give a valuation of Millicom of approximately 10 billion dollars, including debt.
In November last year, it was announced that Atlas Investissement of French billionaire. Xavier Niel, acquired about 7 percent of the total shares of Millicom.
In the case of Colombia, Millicom owns 50 percent of Tigo’s shares, while the other half is owned by Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM).
Throughout 2022, the value of its securities on the Nasdaq stock exchange in Stockholm reported a decline of 50 percentclosing the year with a market value of about 22.69 billion Swedish crowns (2.17 billion dollars).
Marcelo Claure, the CEO of SoftBank International and the person responsible for launching the largest venture capital fund for companies in the region, was appointed as the head for Latin America of the Chinese fast-fashion company Sheinwhere he would have invested 100 million dollars.
In addition to going through the Japanese investment fund Softbank, he was behind WeWork and its failed IPO, as well led the merger between Sprint and T-Mobile that closed in 2020 for $195 million.
Claure is a professional in Economics and Finance and an honorary Doctorate in Business Sciences from Bentley University. He also received an honorary Juris Doctorate from Babson College, and is an executive fellow at Harvard Business School and the Class of 2016 Henry Crown Fellows at the Aspen Institute.
Soccer is another of his passions, he owns Club Bolívar, the largest professional team in Bolivia, and in partnership with City Football Group, he is also co-owner of Girona FC in Spain.
