It is the same company that Carige wanted and that had business relations with Banca Ifis, the main sponsor of the Sampdoria
Genoa – After a series of surveys, meetings, interests – which are ancient but always functional terms to define, for example, due diligence – there is finally the first offer for Sampdoria. This is a non-binding offer. Or if you prefer, but probably not, unbinding. In any case, there is someone who leaps forward on the changeover front of the Corte Lambruschini club and that someone would be an American fund: his name is Cerberus, to be precise Cerberus Capital Management, a company founded in 1992 by Steve Feinberg. In Genoa it is a name already heard because it was among the suitors of Banca Carige, together with Bper and Crédit Agricol, and in fact it is a company specialized in the purchase of impaired loans (if you prefer, but probably not, Npl or Non-performing loans). Cerberus also has interests in football, as evidenced by its presence, at partner level, in the Royal Football Fund, a sports investment company based in Dubai.
The glue between Cerberus and Sampdoria may have been Banca Ifis, the main sponsor of Sampdoria whose writing has stood out on the blucerchiati’s shirts since last year. Banca Ifis, whose vice president is Ernesto Furstenberg Fassio from Genoa and Sampdoria often in the stands at the Ferraris to follow his favorite team, in November 2021 took over 2.8 billion of impaired loans from Cerberus himself; and could therefore have brought the two realities into contact. The approach operations of which are followed by a law firm in Milan, while a Spanish family office could support the Americans in the operation.
It is not a binding offer, which obliges the parties more and generally precedes the sales contract, but it is still the first concrete manifestation of the fact that Sampdoria can be sold. What the whole Sampdoria world is waiting for after the last, very difficult years at the helm of Massimo Ferrero. Just as the structure of the Cerberus fund is particularly robust, which has huge amounts of capital at its disposal. It also has important connections with politics, given that one of its top executives in the past was Dan Quayle, vice president of the United States under the presidency of George Bush sr.
Therefore, it would be a rather complex operation and, as has frequently happened in recent times, organized by an American investment fund. Whose interest in our championships is consolidating, so much so that in addition to the Cerberus offer there are the interests of two other US funds (as well as one European and one extra-European). It is confirmation that on the other side of the ocean, US finance thinks that our movement is growing and can guarantee secure earnings in the future. Because this is what funds do, they invest to earn. President Lanna and the representatives of the board of directors will therefore have to watch over the goodness of the operation Sampdoria. In fact, with this offer Cerberus places itself a step above the polls already carried out by tycoon David Blitzer (who later turned to Saint-Etienne) and by Jim Miller’s Ares fund.
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