Xavier Niel will invest €5.1 billion through the family-owned vehicle Vega to obtain 16.2 percent of Vodafone from E&, elevating him to the operator's largest shareholder without any control ambitions. The transaction enlarges his 139-million-subscriber telecom portfolio spanning 26 countries yet leaves Free mobile plans in France untouched.

News of the share transaction lifted Vodafone stock more than 10 percent on the London Stock Exchange, marking its strongest single-day advance since the late 1990s.
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Vega has declared it harbours no plan to secure majority ownership or to bid for all outstanding shares.
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