Important news is on the way for Milan. The shareholding structure remains firmly in the hands of RedBird and its founder Gerry Cardinale, but it sees the same former U.S. banker from Goldman Sachs engaged in this last month to sound out more decisively potential investors, both American and especially from the Persian Gulf area, who are interested in “injecting” equity (i.e., equity capital) upstream of the Rossoneri club, that is, in the control vehicles. Among the potential interested parties, a well-known name from recent Milanese history resurfaces: it is Investcorp, the Bahraini fund that has already been officially interested in the Rossoneri club at the time of RedBird's acquisition and that a year ago also examined Inter's dossier; nothing was done, however, partly because of the willingness of Nerazzurri president Steven Zhang to try the refinancing route. From Investcorp's headquarters in Bahrain comes a "no comment" on the renewed interest in Milan, but according to several sources there have been talks between RedBird representatives and some managers of Investcorp, which would be active on the dossier through its branch with headquarters in Abu Dhabi, namely Investcorp Capital, a company recently listed on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange.
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