REUTERS - Sep 1 - Dating group ParshipMeet has started preparations for an IPO next year. ParshipMeet, which is 43% owned by buyout group General Atlantic and 53% by German broadcaster ProSiebenSat.1 Media, has invited banks to pitch for roles in the listing. ProSieben CEO Rainer Beaujean has publicly set his sights on floating ParshipMeet in 2022. Its e-commerce business bought The Meet Group last year for $467M and renamed it ParshipMeet Group. ParshipMeet could be worth upward of 3.5B euros ($4.1B). ParshipMeet reported H1 revenues of 280M euros, up 19% on a pro-forma basis, while EBITDA climbed to 61M euros.
by Arno Schuetze & Douglas Busvine
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