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CVC and Blackstone place 100 mln Merlin shares

Reuters - UK Focus

June 12 (Reuters) - Merlin Entertainments (Other OTC: MIINY - news) ' private equity backers CVC Capital Partners Ltd and Blackstone (NYSE: BX - news) Group LP are placing 100 million shares of the British theme park owner through Morgan Stanley (Berlin: DWD.BE - news) and Deutsche Bank (Xetra: DBK.DE - news) , the German lender said.

Merlin, the world's second-biggest operator of visitor attractions behind Walt Disney with brands such as Madam Tussauds and Legoland, counts Blackstone and CVC (Taiwan OTC: 4744.TWO - news) as its biggest shareholders after Kirkbi A/S, according to Thomson Reuters (Frankfurt: TOC.F - news) data. (Reporting by Richa Naidu in Bangalore, editing by David Evans)