Sunday 15 September 2013

Kerimov Selling $3.7Bln Uralkali Stake to Kogan | Business | The Moscow Times

Kerimov Selling $3.7Bln Uralkali Stake to Kogan | Business | The Moscow Times:

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Vedomosti
Suleiman Kerimov
Tycoon Suleiman Kerimov is selling his stake in potash producer Uralkali to investor Vladimir Kogan for $3.7 billion, a prominent Russian lawyer and news agencies said Friday.

Shares of major European and North American potash producers jumped on speculation that a sale might lead Uralkali to rejoin an export partnership with state-owned Belaruskali, averting a possible collapse in prices for the soil nutrient.

Speculation that Kerimov has been trying to sell his 21.75 percent stake, held through his foundation, has mounted since Uralkali triggered a row with Belarus by pulling out of a cartel in July that controlled about 40 percent of the world's potash.

The reports could not be immediately confirmed but Kogan — a financier and former state official once dubbed "Putin's banker" — has been linked by media to such a deal for a week."

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