Investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown agrees £5.4bn takeover

Investment platform Hargreaves Lansdown agrees £5.4bn takeover

Big payday for founders after offer by private equity consortium that means London stock market exit

Hargreaves Lansdown has agreed a £5.4bn takeover by private equity suitors that will give hundreds of millions of pounds to its billionaire founders and result in the investment supermarket becoming the latest company to leave the London stock market.

Board members of the FTSE 100 company recommended the £11.40-a-share offer, which requires shareholder approval.

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