Onepoint announced on Wednesday that it had crossed upwards, on December 8, the threshold of 10% of the capital of Atos ATOS.PA and to date holds 11.4% of the capital and voting rights of the group.
“The increase in Onepoint’s participation is part of its logic as a reference shareholder of Atos with a long-term vision,” the company said in a press release.
At the beginning of November, Onepoint, a French company specializing in digital transformation, took a stake of nearly 10% in Atos, an arrival welcomed by the group in great difficulty which decided to split its historic IT consulting activities (Tech Foundations) and those in cybersecurity.
At the end of November, Atos announced that it had entered into advanced exclusive negotiations with the company EP Equity Investment (EPEI) of Czech businessman Daniel Kretinsky with a view to modifying the terms of their sale agreement relating to the Tech Foundations division.
The Tech Foundations branch must be sold to Daniel Kretinsky’s EPEI group but the operation is contested by certain shareholders, including Onepoint, and political leaders, who fear the loss of assets deemed strategic to the benefit of a foreign company.
(Sudip Kar-Gupta, written by Jean-Stéphane Brosse)