USMANOV PREPARED TO SHARE NEW HOLDING'S EQUITY WITH PARTNERS

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MOSCOW. (Interfax) - Alisher Usmanov, one of the main beneficiaries of the enterprises that make up the Metalloinvest holding and Gazmetall, is prepared to share his equity during a forthcoming IPO by the group being put together from those companies. "I've got 50 percent of both holdings, but I'm giving my partners the chance to draw level and I'm willing to be the first to sell my shares in any public offering on order to reduce my stake to their level, or to give them the opportunity to buy my shares if they want to match my stake," Usmanov told Interfax on November 3. Usmanov said he would own 50 percent of the new holding, that a fund representing the businessman Andrei Skoch would own 30 percent and that Vasily Anisimov, one of the shareholders in iron ore producer Mikhailovskv GOK, would own 20 percent.