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IAG OCT 2020年10月 亞博匯 12 亞博匯早報 BREAKFAST BRIEFS PERELMAN SELLS SCIENTIFIC GAMES STAKE, ODELL NEW CHAIRMAN PERELMAN出售SCIENTIFIC GAMES股份，ODELL出任新主席 SCIENTIFIC GAMES has announced that its largest shareholder, Ronald Perelman, has reached an agreement to sell a 34.9% stake in the global gaming giant to a number of long-term institutional investors, led by Australian fund manager Caledonia (Private) Investments, in a deal worth around US$1 billion. Caledonia was officially announced as the major benefactor of Perelman’s stake on 14 September, acquiring the shares at a price of US$28.00 per share. Perelman, listed as the 79th wealthiest person in the United States with a personal fortune of US$7.8 billion, revealed in July that he was exploring opportunities to offload his entire 39% stake in Scientific Games, held by his wholly-owned investment vehicle MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Ltd. The new ownership structure will see all three MacAndrews & Forbes representatives – including Chairman Perelman as well as Barry Schwartz and Frances Townsend – step down from the Scientific Games board. They will be replaced by former Aristocrat CEO Jamie Odell, who will become Scientific Games’ Executive Chairman, and former Aristocrat CFO Toni Korsanos as new Executive Vice Chairman. Founded in Sydney in 1982, Caledonia already holds a 10.4% stake in Flutter Entertainment – the UK gaming giant that owns Paddy Power and Sky Bet and which recently completed a US$12 billion merger with The Stars Group, operator of online poker site PokerStars. It also holds sizeable stakes in Warner Music and US digital real estate firm Zillow among others. Scientific Games（SG）公司 宣佈，其最大股東 Ronald Perelman已達成協議，將這家全球博彩 巨頭34.9％的股份出售給包括澳洲基金管理公司 Caledonia（Private）Investments在內的許多長 期機構投資者，交易價值約10億美元。 Caledonia於9月14日被正式宣佈為Perelman 股份的主要受益人，以每股28.00美元的價格購入該 公司股票。 Perelman以個人資產達78億美元位列美國第 79大富豪。他曾在7月份透露，正在尋找機會出售其 持有的SG公司的全部39％的股份，該股份由其全資 控股的投資公司MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings Ltd.持有。 新的股權結構將令所有的Ma c A n d r ew s & Forbes Holdings Ltd.公司的代表——包括 主席Perelman、Barry Schwartz和Frances Townsend在內，皆退出SG的董事會。 他們將由Aristocrat前任行政總裁Jamie Odell 取代，後者將成為SG的執行主席，而Aristocrat前任 首席財務官Toni Korsanos將擔任新的執行副主席。 Caledonia於1982年在悉尼成立，目前持有 Flutter Entertainment的10.4％股份。Flutter E n t e r t a i nme n t是英國博彩巨頭，旗下擁有 Paddy Power和Sky Bet，最近還與網絡撲克網 站Poker Stars的運營商The Stars Group達成 了120億美元的合併協議。 其同時還持有華納音樂公司和美國數碼房地產 公司Zillow等企業的大量股份。