Citic Private Equity, part of China’s top financial conglomerate, has held preliminary talks to buy a roughly €2bn controlling stake in Spain’s Imagina Group, a media company that distributes the country’s top football league internationally and has also backed films including Woody Allen’s Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
The discussions between the unit of the powerful state-backed group and Imagina have lasted several weeks and are the latest example of China’s appetite for sports and entertainment assets abroad.
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