The Chinese media giant Tencent and its partners have agreed with the Japanese telecommunications company SoftBank to purchase a controlling stake in the Finnish studio Supercell.
Photo: The Wall Street Journal
This was reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to its sources close to the deal.
The transaction will take place in several stages. Moreover, Tencent is still communicating with co-investors about their participation in the purchase of Clash of Clans authors. One of these co-investors may be the Chinese Hillhouse Capital Group, which is engaged in investing.
Since the purchase will take place in several stages, Tencent will have the opportunity to pay the required amount for Supercell, which will amount to more than $ 8 billion. However, despite the stages of the transaction, Tencent still plans to raise additional funds to cover part of the costs.
The deal will be officially announced this week (presumably after this Tuesday).
A source: The Wall Street Journal
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