Ascendi, which until now owned 20% of Via Verde Portugal, decided to take advantage of its preemptive rights and buy a portion of the stake that SIBS will sell, increasing it to 25%. Thus, Brisa will retain 75% of the company.
An official Ascendi source contacted Negosios and confirmed that the French concessionaire Ardian has exercised his preemptive right following an agreement between SIBS and Brisa to sell 20% of the shares so far held by the network manager Multibanco. The operation ended on Wednesday.
In early November, Brisa and SIBS announced that they had reached an agreement to acquire a 20% stake in SIBS in Via Verde Portugal by a group led by Antonio Pires de Lima.
The deal, the value of which has not been disclosed, will allow Brisa to strengthen its position from the current 60% to 80%, but the completion of the agreement depended on the decision of Ascendi, which had the right to split the transferred shares. , in the current proportion of your participation.
Via Verde was established in 1991 and serves over 2.7 million customers.
The company plans to invest about 30 million euros by 2025, of which 10 to 15 million of which only in the next two years, when it intends to launch new products and services, Antonio Pires told Negócios in early November. de Lima, CEO of Brisa, and Eduardo Ramos, group administrator in charge of VV
They also report that with the increased participation in VV, in which Ascendi is still a partner, Brisa will ensure that it is “focused on taking steps again to internationalize the Via Verde concept within two to three years.”
