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CVC Capital Partners is holding talks for acquiring 20% of Lega Calcio di Serie A (Serie A), the top professional league for Italian football clubs, for 2 billion euros (See here a previous post by BeBeez). CVC would buy a minority of a subsidiary of the Serie A that owns the tv rights for broadcasting matches. In 2019, CVC invested 200 million British Pounds for acquiring 27% of Premier Rugby Limited, the firm that manages the Premiership Rugby, the top professional league for English rugby clubs. The fund also paid 600 million US Dollars for investing in Bruin Sports Capital (BSC) together with Jordan Company. BSC  is an investment holding that owns organizers of events for the sports sector and in Italy owns a controlling sta