{"id":2873,"date":"2004-12-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-12-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/portstrategy.nfdtesting.uk\/coastlink\/2004\/12\/01\/mersey-docks-in-andpound1bn-takeover-approach\/"},"modified":"2004-12-01T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-12-01T00:00:00","slug":"mersey-docks-in-andpound1bn-takeover-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/2004\/12\/01\/mersey-docks-in-andpound1bn-takeover-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"MERSEY DOCKS IN \u00a31BN TAKEOVER APPROACH"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mjc-gate__lead-in\"><p>CVC Capital Partners, the private equity house, has made an approach to Mersey Docks and Harbour Company which could result in a \u00a3 1billion takeover of the Liverpool-based ports group. Mersey Docks was forced by the Takeover Panel to reveal that it had received a \" preliminary approach\" from an unnamed private equity group \" that may or may not lead to an offer for the company\" .<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"mjc-gate mjc-gate--full mjc-gate--anon\" data-mjc-gate=\"anon\">\n\n    \n    <div class=\"mjc-gate__body\">\n\n        \n                            <h2 class=\"mjc-gate__heading\">Continue reading this article<\/h2>\n            \n                            <p class=\"mjc-gate__text\">Registration is currently closed. Sign in if you already have an account.<\/p>\n            \n        \n                    <p class=\"mjc-gate__actions\">\n                <a class=\"btn btn-primary mjc-gate__button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/login\/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.portstrategy.com%2Fcoastlink%2F2004%2F12%2F01%2Fmersey-docks-in-andpound1bn-takeover-approach%2F\">\n                    Sign in                <\/a>\n            <\/p>\n        \n        \n    <\/div>\n\n<\/aside>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CVC Capital Partners, the private equity house, has made an approach to Mersey Docks and Harbour Company which could result in a \u00a3 1billion takeover of the Liverpool-based ports group. Mersey Docks was forced by the Takeover Panel to reveal that it had received a &#8221; preliminary approach&#8221; from an unnamed private equity group &#8221; that may or may not lead to an offer for the company&#8221; .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-2873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2873\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2873"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portstrategy.com\/coastlink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=2873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}