Australian Billionaire Cannon-Brookes Settles 11.3 Percent Stake Buy in AGL Energy

Australian Billionaire Cannon-Brookes Settles 11.3 Percent Stake Buy in AGL Energy
Annie Cannon-Brookes and Mike Cannon-Brookes, chief executive officer of Atlassian, attend the annual Allen and Co. Sun Valley media conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 11, 2019. Brendan McDermid/Reuters
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Australian tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes’ firm Grok Ventures said on Wednesday it settled an 11.28 percent stake purchase in AGL Energy worth A$650 million ($455.33 million) with J.P. Morgan.

Cannon-Brookes, the co-CEO of software firm Atlassian and a vocal climate activist, had gained the AGL stake earlier this month by converting a part of his derivatives-based holding in the company, having failed in a takeover attempt with Brookfield Asset Management.