La compra de MGM

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Sony-Led Group May Agree to Buy MGM for $5 Bln, USA Today Says
June 18 (Bloomberg) -- A group led by Sony Corp. is in the final stages of agreeing to buy the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. film studio for $5 billion, USA Today reported, citing unidentified people with direct knowledge of the talks.

Sony and its buyout-firm partners Texas Pacific Group and Providence Capital would pay $13 for each share of MGM plus assumption of debt, the newspaper said. The deal may be announced before MGM's annual meeting on June 29.

``The report is just speculation,'' said Keita Sanekata, a spokesman for Sony at the company's headquarters in Tokyo. ``Our position remains the same.''

Sony, which already owns Columbia Pictures, was in exclusive talks with MGM in May, people familiar with the discussions said last month. After the exclusivity agreement expired, General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal unit, Time Warner Inc. and Viacom Inc. were considering bids, the New York Post reported on June 8.

Sony, Texas Pacific and Providence Capital would provide $1.5 billion in equity financing, USA Today reported. Sony banker Credit Suisse First Boston would provide $3.5 billion of debt financing, and CSFB's DLJ Merchant Banking might also contribute some cash, the newspaper said.

Gavin Sullivan, a spokeswoman at CSFB in London, declined to comment on the newspaper's report. MGM declined to comment, the paper said.

An agreement would mark the third time billionaire Kirk Kerkorian, who controls 74 percent of MGM, has sold the studio. Kerkorian tried unsuccessfully to merge the studio with Sony Pictures in 2001.

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