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    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      UK cites security risk as it orders sale of Russian-backed broadband provider

      Government also blocks proposed tech acquisition by a Chinese semiconductor company

    • Friday, 9 December, 2022
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      ‘Look, we’re not sanctioned’: how Holland & Barrett owner cut ties with Russian investors

      LetterOne’s chair Mervyn Davies appoints new board as it finalises separation from oligarchs

    • Wednesday, 7 September, 2022
      The Big Read
      Russia’s melancholy oligarchs

      The tycoons are bitter about sanctions that have left them ostracised in the west and impotent at home

    • Wednesday, 9 March, 2022
      Veon Ltd
      Banks review relationship with telecoms group linked to Mikhail Fridman

      Business tycoon, one of Russia’s richest men, was hit with sanctions by the EU

    • Friday, 4 March, 2022
      News in-depth
      Mikhail Fridman and Petr Aven: oligarchs caught between Putin and the west

      Russian tycoons parted from European business empire have strong ties to UK establishment

    • Wednesday, 2 March, 2022
      Mikhail Fridman loses control of LetterOne after sanctions

      Russian tycoon and fellow billionaire Petr Aven agree to have stakes in London-based investment group ‘frozen’

    • Tuesday, 1 March, 2022
      Russian magnate Mikhail Fridman says direct criticism of Putin risks reprisals

      One of Russia’s richest men says any ‘unacceptable’ statement would hurt his workforce and customers

    • Monday, 28 February, 2022
      Russian business & finance
      EU freezes assets of Russia’s leading oligarchs and allies of Putin

      Alfa Group’s Mikhail Fridman, Rosneft’s Igor Sechin and financier Alisher Usmanov on Brussels blacklist

    • Sunday, 27 February, 2022
      Mikhail Fridman speaks out against Ukrainian conflict in letter to staff

      Businessman tells employees at private equity firm LetterOne that ‘war can never be the answer’

    • Monday, 31 January, 2022
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      Mikhail Fridman’s LetterOne to block BASF over Wintershall IPO

      Investment group says float of $20bn company not desirable in short-term

    • Saturday, 6 November, 2021
      InterviewEnergy crisis
      Russian tycoon Mikhail Fridman warns rapid switch from gas is ‘irresponsible’

      Billionaire to invest more in renewable energy but says transition will be ‘very challenging process’

    • Wednesday, 2 June, 2021
      UK Broadband
      LetterOne backs £1bn UK broadband plan to compete with BT

      Russian billionaire Mikhail Fridman’s group to finance fibre network rollout to 1m premises in eastern England

    • Thursday, 10 October, 2019
      LexLetterOne Holdings SA
      Fridman/LetterOne: for the love of Mike Premium content

      A drawn-out court case could damp investor appetite for the Russian’s energy business

    • Monday, 7 October, 2019
      Mikhail Fridman faces quizzing on Spanish corporate ‘raid’

      Russian billionaire accused of using ‘economic siege’ to drive down price of takeover target

    • Wednesday, 20 March, 2019
      Distribuidora Internacional de Alimentacion SA
      Investor support for Dia rescue paves way for Fridman buyout

      Shareholders in Spanish grocer vote in favour of LetterOne’s €500m capital injection

    • Friday, 8 February, 2019
      News in-depthWeek in Review
      Mikhail Fridman seeks to replicate Russian success with Dia buyout

      Oligarch says shift west is born of a desire to prove himself again

    • Tuesday, 5 February, 2019
      LetterOne Holdings SA
      Russian billionaire seeks to buy Spanish supermarket group Dia

      Mikhail Fridman commits to €500m turnround plan ahead of dilutive share issue

    • Tuesday, 5 February, 2019
      Lex
      Mikhail Fridman/Dia: shop flop Premium content

      Struggling Spanish supermarket group needs a complete revamp, and equity

    • Tuesday, 11 December, 2018
      Alfa-Bank OJSC
      Alfa-Bank owners discuss sale with VTB and UniCredit, sources say

      Proprietors including Mikhail Fridman deny attempt to sell Russia’s largest private bank

    • Friday, 23 February, 2018
      Law
      Skadden’s oligarch work comes into focus after Mueller charges

      Law firm found rich pickings in the ruins of the former Soviet Union

    • Thursday, 21 December, 2017
      European companies
      Mikhail Fridman nears stake in North Sea gasfield

      Russian billionaire was told by the UK to sell North Sea assets two years ago

    • Sunday, 10 December, 2017
      European companies
      ‘Big is beautiful’ in oil industry, says former BP chief 

      DEA and BASF merger marks return of John Browne to frontline dealmaking

    • Sunday, 25 June, 2017
      European companies
      Mikhail Fridman fund to buy Holland & Barrett for £1.8bn

      Russian billionaire’s investment vehicle L1 Retail to take over health foods retailer

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2017
      European companies
      Russia’s richest tycoons see collective wealth leap $100bn

      Annual Forbes list shows oligarchs benefiting from resurgent commodity prices

    • Tuesday, 25 October, 2016
      Telecoms
      Italy gives green light to 3 Italia, Wind deal
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