The Rothschild family is planning to buy out the shares in Franco-British investment bank Rothschild & Co that it does not already own in a move that would take the company off the stock market.
Concordia, the family holding company that owns 38.9 per cent of the shares and 47.5 per cent of the voting rights, said on Monday that it was in talks with banks and investors to finance an offer for the Paris-listed group.
Rothschild & Co has three divisions: global advisory, wealth and asset management, and merchant banking. Concordia said that none of these businesses needed access to capital from the public equity markets and, given their long-term nature, it made more sense for the group to be private.