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Gates' Cascade Joins Televisa Bid For Univision
May 15, 2006 at 8:55 AM (PT)
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CASCADE INVESTMENT -- that's MICROSOFT Chairman BILL GATES' company -- has been added to the list of investment companies, along with BAIN CAPITAL, THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, CARLYLE GROUP, and KOHLBERG KRAVIS ROBERTS, that will partner with MEXICO's GROUPO TELEVISA in a bid for UNIVISION. The list was submitted in a MAY 12 letter to the SEC; TELEVISA owns 11.4% of UNIVISION and cannot own more than 25% due to U.S. laws preventing foreign ownershop of broadcast entities above the 25% ceiling.
CASCADE already owns a small stake in TELEVISA, and the BILL AND MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION holds a small stake in UNIVISION.

