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15 September 2015 By Una Galani Follow @ugalani

Investors value Masayoshi Son’s tech conglomerate at around 36 percent less than the sum of its parts. Following Alibaba’s IPO, most of SoftBank’s worth is in shares of companies listed elsewhere. It’s hard to see what its billionaire founder and CEO can do to close the gap.

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SoftBank Group’s Chairman and Chief Executive Masayoshi Son considered taking the Japanese tech group private through a management buyout earlier this year before scrapping the plan at least three months ago, Bloomberg reported on Sept. 11.

The report said that Son had held talks about the buyout with an “overseas partner” but couldn’t agree on financing conditions. He also turned to at least one lender before abandoning the plan, Bloomberg cited one person as saying.

Son is the largest shareholder in SoftBank with a 19.3 percent stake.

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