LONDON (Reuters) – A consortium of Blackstone and Thomson Reuters, the publisher of Reuters News, on Tuesday launched a sale of 23 million shares in the London Stock Exchange Group, according to a term sheet seen by Reuters.
The shareholders, which maintain a stake in LSEG after selling data provider Refinitiv to the UK bourse operator, are looking to raise in the region of 1.7 billion pounds ($2.01 billion)through the sale.
($1 = 0.8437 pounds)
(Reporting by Pablo Mayo Cerqueiro; Editing by Tomasz Janowski)
