Alcatel in Talks to Sell Enterprise Unit to Unify GmbH, a Venture of Siemens and Gores Group -Bloomberg
January 13 2014 - 3:03PM
Dow Jones News
Alcatel-Lucent SA (ALU.FR, ALU) is in talks with parties
including Unify GmbH about a potential sale of its enterprise unit,
Bloomberg News reported Monday, citing three people familiar with
the matter.
Private equity firm Gores Group owns 51% of communications
products and services company Unify, while Siemens AG (SIE.XE, SI)
owns 49%.
One of the people told Bloomberg that the Alcatel-Lucent
enterprise unit has also received interest from an industrial
company outside the U.S. and from a Chinese investor.
Full story at
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-12/alcatel-is-said-to-hold-talks-with-unify-on-enterprise-unit-sale.html
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