Stock market delisting: Video games firm accepts £2.1bn bid in yet another blow to the LSE

Keywords Studios has backed a cash bid worth £24.50 a share from Swedish private equity firm EQT that will see yet another firm delist from the London Stock Exchange.

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Video games developer Keywords Studios has accepted a £2.1 billion takeover offer that will see yet another London-listed firm leave the stock market.

The Dublin-based firm has backed a cash bid worth £24.50 a share from Swedish private equity firm EQT, which will see Keywords Studios being taken private. The firm is currently listed on London's junior Aim market.

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Chris Newlands

Chris is a freelance journalist, and was previously an editor and correspondent at the Financial Times as well as the business and money editor at The i Newspaper. He is also the author of the Virgin Money Maker, the personal finance guide published by Virgin Books, and has written for the BBC, The Wall Street Journal, The Independent, South China Morning Post, TimeOut, Barron's and The Guardian. He is a graduate in Economics.