Easyjet agrees £5.7bn takeover deal

Summary

US investment firm Apollo has agreed a £5.7bn deal to take over low-cost airline easyJet.

News of the deal follows weeks of takeover over speculation. In early June LBN reported that US investment firm Castlelake was circling Luton-based easyJet , founded by Greek tycoon Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou in 1995, with a view to buying the business.

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