{"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":"<p>Germany&#8217;s DVD Bank is also participating in the transaction in syndication.<\/p>\n<p>CVC, which is being advised by Citigroup, has already shown interest in the ports market. In July, it lost out on the bid for PD Teesport after making it onto a shortlist of four.<\/p>\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}]}}