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By Elliot Gulliver-Needham Hargreaves Lansdown has finally received an official bid from potential private equity buyers that management is prepared to recommend to shareholders. The £11.10 share bid, along with a dividend of 30 pence for the end of the financial year, came after months of negotiations between the DIY platform business and the consortium of private equity companies, which includes CVC Capital Partners. Hargreaves Lansdown previously said it would recommend an offer of around £5.4bn after it spurned lesser offers. The group’s share price has jumped more than 50 per cent since i…

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