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Head of Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux, Chinese businessman and new owner of the AC Milan football club, Yonghong Li (C) and Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux representative David Han Li (R) arrive for a press conference on April 14, 2017 in Milan. Serie A giants AC Milan were sold to Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux yesterday in a deal which sees the Chinese-led consortium take a 99.9% stake in the club. The seven-time European champions who are Italy's most succcessful club in international competition, have been owned by former three-time Italy prime minister Silvio Berlusconi since 1986. A joint statement by AC Milan's holding company Fininvest and Rossoneri Sport Investment Lux said on April 13, 2017 :

First instalment arrives from Yonghong Li: the situation

The first instalment of the capital increase (€10m, €40m in total) requested by the minority shareholder has been paid by Yonghong Li, according to Italian media. 

Yonghong Li’s transfer of €10m to AC Milan needed to arrive today, which is the first instalment of capital increase requested by the minority shareholders at the last board of directors meeting.


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Due to some technical issues, as reported by Ansa, the €10m will be visible first tomorrow in the accounts of Milan. This tranche had to be paid in order to avoid the intervention of Elliott. The failure to respect the commitment by the president would have triggered a so-called ‘covenant’, the protection clauses provided in the contract with the US fund. Now the majority shareholder will have to pay another €30m by the end of June.

Meanwhile, today there was a summit between Massimiliano Mirabelli and the coach, Rino Gattuso, to discuss the future, transfer market and other organisational issues.

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