Reliance calls Ken Costa (Lazard man) to broker $68.7 billion MTN deal

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	Reliance calls Ken Costa (Lazard man) to broker $68.7 billion MTN deal

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6-4-2008 6:20 AM

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					<P><STRONG><A href="http://unwireindia.com/?s=Reliance+Communications"><U>Reliance Communications</U></A> has appointed a veteran London banker and one-time anti-apartheid activist to lead its team of advisers on talks with South Africa’s MTN that could create a giant <A href="http://unwireindia.com/?s=MTN+group"><U>Indo-African telecommunications group</U></A>.</STRONG></p> <P><IMG alt="Lazard logo" src="http://www.wikinvest.com/images/5/54/Lazard_logo.jpg" class="alignleft" />Ken Costa, chairman of international business at <A href="http://www.lazard.com"><U>Lazard</U></A>, will lead Reliance’s negotiations with MTN, the two companies being locked in exclusive talks that could create a company with a market value of more than $68.7 billion.</p> <P>Now a well-known city banker, Costa in his youth was the leader of the students’ council at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, then a centre for anti-apartheid activism, and spoke about his passion for justice in a recent interview.
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