Profil Financier
Patrick Drahi occupe actuellement le rang #551 du classement mondial StarFortune (secteur télécommunications). Fortune nette estimée : $7.3 B (+$168 M sur 24h).
Telecoms magnate Patrick Drahi is the founder and owner of multinational Altice NV, which he took private in January 2021 at a $7.3 billion valuation.
Drahi built Altice with more than 20 acquisitions of lagging cable and mobile operators and has expanded further with highly leveraged deals.
In 2021, he spent approximately $4.2 billion to purchase an 18% stake in British telecom giant BT Group. Three years later, he sold it to India's Bharti Global.
He stormed the U.S. in 2015 by buying a 70% stake in cable operator Suddenlink for $9 billion and snapping up Cablevision for $17.7 billion.
Those U.S. entities were spun off into Altice USA, which went public in June 2017.
Drahi owns auction house Sotheby's, which he took private in 2019.
Drahi was born in Casablanca, Morocco and emigrated to France as a teenager.