Mon, Dec 01, 2008 | 12:48 GMT
Midway sold for $0.0012 per share
According to this Reuters report, quoting the Wall Street Journal, Sumner Redstone has sold his 87 percent share in Midway to investor Mark Thomas for $100,000, or $0.0012 a share.
Thomas will assume $70 million of senior secured and unsecured debt.
The sale amounts to a significant loss on Redstone’s investment but secures a hefty tax benefit as he negotiates other asset sales, the paper said.
Redstone has made the move to ease debt on his firm, National Amusements, which has about $1.6 billion in debt outstanding. Half of that will need to be repaid by year-end.
Blimey. More through the link.
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Posted in: Hot, Midway, Trade
Tags: buyout, mark thomas, Sumner Redstone, takeover
4 comments
#1
Blerk
01/12/08, 1:07 pm
Seems over for Midway.
#2
fj
01/12/08, 1:21 pm
I didn’t realise Mark Thomas had done so well out of his activist-comedian routine.
#3
brennan40
01/12/08, 3:45 pm
Doesn’t Midway supposedly have a title in dev, which “looks better than Gears 2″?
#4
airdom
01/12/08, 7:13 pm
yeah , whats gonna happen to that Gow2 killer? lol