Monday, May 25, 2009

Bharti says no plans for rights issue for MTN deal

25 May 2009, 1624 hrs IST, REUTERS, on www.economictimes.com

NEW DELHI: Bharti Airtel, which restarted merger talks with South Africa's MTN Group, does not plan to make a rights issue to raise funds fir the deal.

"The proposed transaction does not envisage a rights issue," the company said in a statement to Reuters in response to some submitted questions.
The company did not elaborate how it was planning to fund the deal, which would see it take a 49 percent stake in MTN.

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