{"id":7725,"date":"2014-10-24T08:02:14","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T08:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ft-agency.com\/wordpress\/?p=7725"},"modified":"2014-10-24T08:02:14","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T08:02:14","slug":"alibaba-hankers-37-percent-stake-lionsgate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ft-agency.com\/wordpress\/alibaba-hankers-37-percent-stake-lionsgate\/","title":{"rendered":"Alibaba hankers for a 37 percent stake in Lionsgate"},"content":{"rendered":"

After getting a taste of \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma has an appetite for more.<\/p>\n

The Chinese Internet tycoon \u2014 who is set to make the rounds of movie studios to scoop up content \u2014 is hungering after Mark Rachesky\u2019s 37.4 percent of Lionsgate, the studio behind the blockbuster film franchise, The Post has learned.<\/p>\n

As Lionsgate\u2019s chairman and single largest shareholder, Rachesky\u2019s stake is worth $1.6 billion based on the current share price.<\/p>\n

Asian bankers are telling Hollywood investors that Rachesky\u2019s exit from Lionsgate will be announced in November, if not earlier, as Alibaba starts to spend some of its $25 billion in proceeds from its record-setting IPO.<\/p>\n

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Alibaba is craving entertainment assets, in particular US film and TV shows that it can import into what\u2019s already the world\u2019s second-largest theatrical market.<\/p>\n

For Rachesky, who began accumulating Lionsgate shares in 2005 through his $6 billion Manhattan investment firm, an exit would deliver a massive payday.<\/p>\n

Rachesky\u2019s MHR Fund Management acquired an additional 16.2 million of the studio\u2019s shares in 2010 via a convertible debenture aimed at beating back a hostile bid for Lionsgate by his one-time mentor Carl Icahn.<\/p>\n

Those shares converted at $6.20 apiece, after which Rachesky bought much of a defeated Icahn\u2019s stake in Lionsgate at $7 a share.<\/p>\n

This gives Rachesky a cost basis under $350 million and an as-yet unrealized gain of $1.3 billion from the 51.3 million shares he now holds.<\/p>\n

And that\u2019s not counting the premium \u2014 anticipated by one studio investor to exceed 10 percent \u2014 such a major block of the \u201cHunger Games\u201d-hot studio would most likely command.<\/p>\n

Lionsgate, which declined to comment when asked about a Rachesky sale, saw its stock rise 3.3 percent Thursday to close at $31.35 per share.<\/p>\n

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Brian Mulligan, a former studio executive who runs entertainment-and-sports advisory Brooknol Advisors, claims no inside knowledge but likes its potential for keeping Lionsgate\u2019s operating team in place.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey may be the best in the business,\u201d he said, \u201cand they do really clever deals.\u201d<\/p>\n

One of those deals, in fact, already features Alibaba. In July, China\u2019s e-commerce giant struck a deal to stream Lionsgate content such as \u201cMad Men\u201d and the \u201cTwilight\u201d movies in its entertainment-hungry home country.<\/p>\n

Cross-ownership between Lionsgate and Alibaba would take the existing collaboration to a much higher level and might even qualify, in Mulligan\u2019s words, as \u201ca tide-turning development.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cPiracy tends to run rampant in developing countries until major home-grown companies get tired of having their IP [intellectual property] ripped off and get their governments to clamp down,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFrom a macro standpoint, that could wind up the biggest positive from cross-ownership.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another positive for Alibaba is a lack of foreign-ownership restrictions of the sort prevalent in US TV and radio. Japan\u2019s Sony, after all, has owned Columbia Pictures since 1989.<\/p>\n

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Source:\u00a0https:\/\/nypost.com\/2014\/10\/24\/alibaba-hankers-for-a-37-percent-stake-in-lionsgate\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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After getting a taste of \u201cThe Hunger Games,\u201d Alibaba billionaire Jack Ma has an appetite for more. 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