Link Securities | Conflicts of interest arising from Indra’s possible purchase of Escribano were the focus of a Board of Directors meeting lasting more than four hours, which ended with the departure of an independent director, Ángeles Santamaría, who had expressed her reservations about the operation and resigned yesterday for ‘personal reasons’. Santamaría, who did not attend the meeting, has recently been appointed director of Mapfre. At the meeting, it…

Alphavalue/DIVACONS | The Spanish IT services and consulting company has called an extraordinary meeting of its board of directors for this Thursday. The meeting is expected to discuss the merger by absorption of Escribano Mechanical & Engineering (EM&E Group), the family business of its executive chairman and shareholder, Ángel Escribano. This was confirmed to Expansión by sources close to the group’s governing body. Meanwhile, a leading bank has upgraded Indra’s…

Alphavalue/Divacons | The company is negotiating the sale of its outsourcing division Servinform, a Spanish firm specialising in digitalisation services for companies, which has just been acquired by the Anglo-Swiss private equity firm AS Equity Partners. On the other hand, Morgan Stanley has raised a 3.331% stake in Indra, mainly through financial derivatives, according to National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) records. Other major shareholders: SEPI (28%), Escribano (14.3%), SAPA (7.9%),…

Bankinter | General Dynamics closes the door to the acquisition of its Spanish subsidiary (Santa Bárbara Sistemas) after presenting its 2030 strategic plan. Indra (IDR) expressed three months ago its interest in buying Santa Bárbara Sistemas. However, Santa Bárbara Sistemas is owned by General Dynamics, which yesterday presented its strategic plan in Spain: “Industrial and Technological Plan 2025-2030”. The main points are to increase the production capacity of ground vehicles,…