After the dark years of state status, the subsequent privatization, the return in profit and the unscrupulous offer launched on Mediobanca, Banca Monte Paschi di Siena becomes a gluttonous bite and attracts the attention of the great international investors, who have positioned themselves in purchase. Among these BlackRock, which has acquired a significant participation of 5% in the Sienese bank, but not before having ascertained the success of the offer on Piazzetta Cuccia.
Blackrock exceeds the 5% threshold
Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, has announced through communications on the participations relevant to Consob, to have a potential participation of 5.011% in Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena. On the occasion of the Assembly for the capital increase, last April, Blackrock presented himself with a share of just 0.3% and had voted against the functional recapitalization at OPS on Mediobanca.
The participation of the participation dates back to September 4, 2025, the date on which it was now clear that the Opas on Mediobanca had gone through and devoted to success, and is held through 14 subsidiaries. In particular, 3.174% are voting rights referable to shares, 0.548% are shares of securities loan contracts with the possibility of returning at any time without expiry and 1.289% are “contracts for different” (derivatives) without expiry date.
Opas on Mediobanca points to 80% of adhesions straight
The Opas promoted by Siena on the ordinary actions of Mediobanca, as of 8 September, a deadline for adhering, had a total of 506,633,074 requests for membership, equal to 62.2951% of the shares covered by the offer (or 61.0800% on any maximum 829,458,551 shares subject to offer issued in favor of the beneficiaries of the incentive plans). of the offer is scheduled from 16 to 22 September.
In the last few days, according to what emerges from a long series of communications from Internal Dealing presented to the Stock Exchange, there were Fui from the Opas, on 9 September, massive sales of medium -sized shares by the bank managers and councilors of the group companies, in the light of the success of the offer. Among the strategic managers who sold the actions, Alexandra Virginia Young, Group Chief Human Capital of the group, and Giorgio Paleari, head of the Atern Audit.
Piazzetta Cuccia towards Delisting
“Since yesterday we have a 62% shareholder and we have to take note of this, it is not an opinion. We know that there will be a reopening and for our experience the reopenings in these cases lead to an increase in participation that will probably approach around 80%”, said the general manager of Mediobanca, Francesco Saverio Vinci, in a message to employees, adding “many funds that are linked to the indices will be forced to reduce the share in Mediobanca “and” It will be difficult to imagine to keep Mediobanca listed with such a small floating “.
