LONDON, April 7 (IFR) - Numericable stunned the market with its US$5.2bn bond deal on Wednesday, the largest single high-yield bond tranche ever issued. Sign up here. The French telecom firm ...

PARIS--Altice Group, the holding company of businessman Patrick Drahi, said Monday it has bought shares representing almost 0.3% of the capital of Numericable-SFR (NUM.FR). Numericable-SFR is the ...

Numericable acquired France’s second biggest telecom company SFR just last year, but the new telecom giant is back on the acquisition market. This time, its target is Bouygues Telecom, the waning ...

A little less conversation, a little more action. Elvis Presley would no doubt have approved of the latest news from France, where mobile telecoms consolidation — much rumoured but conspicuous by its ...

French telecoms giant Numericable-SFR has made a €10bn ($11.4bn; £7.2bn) offer for rival Bouygues Telecom. Shares in Bouygues jumped more than 13% in Paris trading after the bid was announced. A deal ...

Paris - 27th November 2014: Altice (ATC.AS) and Numericable Group (Euronext:NUM) are pleased to announce today the closing of the transaction to combine SFR and Numericable. Vivendi received €13.366 ...

LONDON/PARIS (Reuters) - French cable operator Numericable launched its promised 4.7 billion euro (3.71 billion pounds) rights issue on Wednesday to help finance the takeover of Vivendi's SFR mobile ...

PARIS—France’s antitrust watchdog Monday approved Numericable Group SA’s acquisition of SFR under some conditions, giving cable investor Patrick Drahi the critical green light to complete the deal ...

Numericable and Altice attracted overwhelming demand for the largest-ever high-yield bond offering to fund the acquisition of French mobile phone operator SFR from Vivendi. Even more remarkable than ...

The upsizing of Numericable’s six-tranche, cross-border offering to €8.4 billion, from €6.04 billion, comes amid strong demand for the paper. Indeed, demand would have been sufficient to print the ...

LONDON (Reuters) - French cable company Numericable's decision to halve the size of a planned loan backing its acquisition of French telecom SFR to 2.8 billion euros (2.30 billion pounds) and boost ...

Patrick Drahi’s $23 billion acquisition of French mobile operator SFR will include about $16 billion of bonds and loans to be raised by Numericable Group SA, according to two people with knowledge of ...