It is deemed strategic by France's government, which blocked its sale to a U.S. conglomerate four years ago. The IPO will be structured partly as a private placement with institutional investors both in France and abroad, and partly as a reserved capital increase for state-owned investment bank Bpifrance, Exosens said in a statement. The company, which is benefiting from a boom in global military spending, will still be controlled by private equity firm Groupe HLD after the IPO, it said in a statement.
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It was an image of unfathomable power. The moment that Kevin Sinfield, pausing a few strides before the finish of last year’s Leeds Marathon to lift Rob Burrow out of his wheelchair and carry him across the line, went beyond anything that could conventionally be described as sport. It offered the purest distillation of their friendship, affirming that there was no limit to how far one man would go for the other.