{"id":1034726,"date":"2026-09-12T08:45:38","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1034726"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:14:47","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T03:44:47","slug":"pe-firm-waterland-ends-alliance-with-giacom-in-gamma-takeover-pursuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/12\/pe-firm-waterland-ends-alliance-with-giacom-in-gamma-takeover-pursuit\/","title":{"rendered":"PE firm Waterland ends alliance with Giacom in Gamma takeover pursuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch private equity firm Waterland said on Friday it is no longer in concert with UK-based Giacom to make an offer for British telecom company Gamma Communications.<\/p>\n<p>Gamma agreed \u2060to \u2060a 1,120 pence per share offer from private equity firm Epiris earlier this month, capping months of takeover talks.<\/p>\n<p>Waterland said it is continuing to consider its interest in Gamma, but \u200bthat there can be \u2060no certainty \u200cof a firm offer.<\/p>\n<p>Gamma&#8217;s \u200bshares were down 2.8% at \u20601141p at 1443 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dutch private equity firm Waterland said on Friday it is no longer in concert with UK-based Giacom to make an offer for British telecom company Gamma Communications. Gamma agreed \u2060to \u2060a 1,120 pence per share offer from private equity firm Epiris earlier this month, capping months of takeover talks. Waterland said it is continuing to consider its interest in Gamma, but \u200bthat there can be \u2060no certainty \u200cof a firm offer. Gamma&#8217;s \u200bshares were down 2.8% at \u20601141p at 1443 GMT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,60,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-telecom-the-economic-times","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034726"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034726\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1034739,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034726\/revisions\/1034739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}