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Access Industries, Inc. is a British-American privately held multinational industrial group.[1] It was founded in 1986 by businessman Leonard "Len" Blavatnik, who is also its chairman. Access Industries' focus is in four areas: natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications,[1] venture capital[2] and real estate.[1] The group invests in the United States, Europe,[3] Israel,[4] and Latin America.[3] It is headquartered in New York and London with additional offices in Moscow.[1]

History

Len Blavatnik founded Access Industries in 1986 as an investment company.[5] He attended Harvard Business School while running the company on the side,[3] graduating with an MBA in 1989. Among its early investments, Access Industries helped form the large aluminum producer SUAL in 1996, which later became part of UC RUSAL. In 1997, Access acquired a 40% stake in the Russian oil company TNK.[6] Half of TNK was sold to British Petroleum (BP) to form TNK-BP in 2003,[3] in what was the largest-ever foreign investment in a Russian company.[7] In 2013, Rosneft acquired TNK-BP for $55 billion,[8] with Access Industries selling its stake and Blavatnik collecting US$7 billion for his share of the oil venture.[6]

Access purchased a large stake in the fashion label Tory Burch in 2004.[9] In 2006, Access Industries took an estimated 70% stake in Top Up TV, a pay TV service in the United Kingdom[10] which sold its subscriber business to Sky in 2013.[11] In 2007, Access Industries purchased a majority stake in the sports media company Perform Group.[10] Also that year, Access became an owner in Acision, a software company focused on messaging systems.[12] Acision was acquired by Comverse, Inc. in 2015.[13] As of 2010, Access retained ownership in companies such as Icon Film Distribution UK,[10] Perform Group, Top Up TV, Amedia, RGE Group, and Warner Music Group (WMG).[14] On July 20, 2011,[15] Access acquired Warner Music Group[9] for US$3.3 billion.[16]

Access Industries has made a variety of contributions to political candidates in local, state and national elections in the United States.[17][18] In May 2015, Access Industries launched Access Entertainment, a division headed up by former BBC Television boss Danny Cohen which specialises in investing in the entertainment media sector.[19] After investing in Facebook before its IPO, Access exited its Facebook holdings in late 2015.[2]

Current holdings

Шаблон:As of Access Industries continued to have stakes in companies such as UC Rusal, LyondellBasell, Rocket Internet, Warner Music Group, and Zalando.[6] In April 2017, Access Entertainment purchased a stake in RatPac Entertainment.[20]

Natural resources and chemicals

Among Access Industries' current holdings are businesses[1] in oil,[21] petrochemicals,[22] power generation,[23] aluminum[6] and biotechnology.[24] Access helped form the large aluminum producer SUAL 1996 with a combination of mergers and acquisitions.[6] In 2007, SUAL merged with RUSAL and the alumina business of Glencore International AG[25] to form UC RUSAL.[6] RUSAL raised $2.24 billion in a 2010 IPO on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange,[26] and as of 2017, it was the world's largest aluminum producer.[6]

In 2005 Access acquired Basell Polyolefins, a Dutch company[22] specializing in polyolefins.[8] On December 20, 2007, Basell acquired the commodity chemicals company Lyondell[22] for approximately $20 billion.[8][22] The resulting company, LyondellBasell Industries,[8] was impacted by the 2008 financial crisis,[8][27] and in 2009, the US operations of LyondellBasell Industries filed for bankruptcy.[27] With financing in part from Access Industries,[6][28] in 2010,[28] LyondellBasell emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in a significantly improved financial position. With a value of $15 billion,[8] it was subsequently ranked as the world's third-largest chemical company based on net sales.[8][27] Access Industries repurchased a large stake in the company in 2013.[8] As of 2017, Access owned approximately 18% of LyondellBasell.[29]

Since 2013, Access Industries has owned Clal Industries Ltd. (CII), an Israeli industrial investment group.[4][24] Among CII's main investments are Nesher Israel Cement Enterprises, Hadera Paper, Golf & Co., Clal Biotechnology,[24] and the logistics group Taavura.[30] Also since 2013, Access has owned a significant interest in EP Energy, a North American oil and natural gas producer with a portfolio of fields in the United States and Brazil.[21] On August 18, 2017, Access Industries and a consortium of investors agreed to acquire the energy company Calpine Corporation for $5.6 billion.[23]

Media and telecommunications

Access Industries has a number of portfolio companies in the media and telecommunications industries.[1] Ice,[31] an internet and telecommunications company in Scandinavia,[32] is primarily owned by Access Industries.[33] In Israel, Access owns a third of RGE Group Ltd., a privately held media group[34] with assets including Channel 10,[4] Noga Communications and the Sports Channel.[34] Access Industries also owns a majority[35] stake in Amedia, a large Russian film and TV studio[36] known for shows such as Poor Nastya. Amedia earned exclusive rights to premiere HBO content in Russia in July 2017.[37]

Access invested in Warner Music Group (WMG) in 2004 with various co-investors.[38] After a partial sale of WMG was completed through an IPO on the NYSE in May 2005, Access continued as a significant shareholder[39] with a 2 percent stake prior to 2011.[40] Access acquired WMG[9] for US$3.3 billion,[16] including $320 million in cash and the assumption of $2 billion of WMG debt.[40]

Access Industries owns AI Film[9][14] in London, a film finance and executive production company established in 2013.[41] Since November 2014, Access Industries has owned a majority stake in DAZN Group Limited, a sports media company[42] which Access formed in 2007[43] by merging Inform and Premium TV.[44] Perform Group owns the sports website Sporting News[45] and launched the sports streaming video service DAZN in 2016.[46] As of 2019, Access held over 85% of the group.[45]

In May 2015, Access Entertainment was established with the hiring of its president, Danny Cohen, BBC's former director of television.[19] They took a 25% stake in Bad Wolf international TV firm, and have a financing venture for drama programming with BBC Worldwide/Lookout Point and a development slate deal with House Productions.[47] In April 2017, Access Entertainment purchased James Packer's ownership share of RatPac Entertainment, which includes the joint venture, RatPac-Dune Entertainment.[48]

In 2018, Pearlfisher has created the new identity for Access Entertainment.[49] In December 2021, Access Entertainment sold their stake in Bad Wolf to Sony Pictures Television.[50]

Technology

In 2015, Access Industries launched Access Technology Ventures, a venture and growth technology investment arm focused on pre-IPO "unicorns".[2] As of 2017, it had investments in companies including Snapchat, Square, Yelp, Alibaba, Rocket Internet,[2] Deezer,[51] Gett,[52] Spotify,[2][46] Zalando, and DigitalOcean. In August 2017, Access Technology Ventures lead a $300 million round of funding for the smartphone maker Essential Products, investing $100 million in the company.[53] Access Industries formed First Access Entertainment in October 2015, which focuses on talent development and representation in music, entertainment, and fashion.[54] Access Industries invested $137 million into Opendoor.[55]

Real estate

Access owns a portfolio of hotels and other commercial and residential properties in the United States, Europe, South America, and the Caribbean, including:[1][56]

Political activities

In 2015, Access Industries donated $1.8 million to Super PACs supporting Republican presidential candidates Scott Walker and Lindsey Graham.[61]

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