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Empresas y finanzas

TSB agrees to $2.5 billion takeover by Spain's Sabadell


    LONDON/MADRID (Reuters) - British bank TSB said it had agreed to be taken over by Spanish lender Banco Sabadell in a deal which values the business at 1.7 billion pounds ($2.5 billion).

    Lloyds Banking Group , which holds a 50 percent stake in TSB, said it had agreed to sell a 9.99 percent shareholding to SABADELL (SAB.MC)and had given an irrevocable undertaking to sell the remainder of its stake to the fifth largest Spanish bank.

    Sabadell said that it would raise 1.6 billion euros of new capital at 1.48 euros per share to help fund the deal.

    ($1 = 0.6784 pounds)

    (Reporting by Matt Scuffham in London and Liz O'Leary in Madrid, editing by Sinead Cruise)