LONDON: US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc is reportedly set to take over troubled British hotel group Le Meridien in a £700mil deal this week.
The Times reported yesterday that Lehman was working with US Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc to exercise an option to match an offer of almost £700mil for Le Meridien made two weeks ago by rival investment bank Goldman Sachs Group Inc.
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