A week after the decision by RTL Group, the main shareholder of the M6 group, to halt any sale process, history could once again rebound.
Potential buyers of M6 have already twice expressed their interest in "the little chain that goes up".
They could have another opportunity to do so, in a third round.
Indeed, in the first round of bidding, in May 2021, it was TF1 that won.
But after eighteen months of battle before the Competition Authority, the subsidiary of the Bouygues group had to throw in the towel.
In early October 2022, a second round of bidding was urgently set up by RTL Group.
Xavier Niel, allied with the Berlusconi family, the trio Stéphane Courbit-Rodolphe Saadé-Marc Ladreit de Lacharrière as well as the billionaire Daniel Kretinsky have once again submitted offers.
In vain, because on October 4, RTL Group finally decided to keep its subsidiary.
The sale was too complicated, in part because the timing of…
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