Leonid Mikhelson, the beneficial owner of Pervobank, has got the indirect right to dispose of a 10.3988% interest in Bank Vozrozhdenie, Bank Vozrozhdenie said in a press release.
The bank specified that Bank Vozrozhdenie shares were bought by Pervobank. The deal was transacted on August 14. The media previously wired that Pervobank acquired a 9.9% interest in Bank Vozrozhdenie.
For the record, Pervobank is going to merge with Promsvyazbank, executives of the lending institutions said in early July.
According to market participants, Promsvyazcapital's entities, owned by the Ananievs brothers and who also own Promsvyazbank, have been buying up Bank Vozrozhdenie shares since June, but formally this company has not yet been mentioned among the bank's shareholders.
Of late news broke that negotiations with the bank's largest majority shareholder Tatiana Orlova over the acquisition of a nearly 34% voting interest began. According to Kommersant, this equity position could cost Promsvyazcapital Rub 4.5 bln.
On August 12, 2015 Promsvyazcapital applied to the Federal Anti-Trust Service (FAS) announcing its resolve to buy 75% of Bank Vozrozhdenie, and obtained the anti-trust authority's consent in a week's time. Now Promsvyazcapital needs to obtain relevant authorization from the Bank of Russia.
