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West Ham valued at £555m

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The sale of 27% of West Ham shares earlier this week at £150m values the Hammers at £555,555,555

That leaves over £400m for the remainder of the shares owned by Sullivan, Gold, Smith and Brown.

David Sullivan has 38.8% of the shares valued at around £216m

David Gold’s 25.1% of the shares are valued at around £140m

Tripp Smith 8% of shares are valued at around £44m

Terry Brown 1.1% of shares are valued at around £6m

In January 2010 David Sullivan and David Gold paid £52.5m to purchase 50% of the shares valuing the club at £105m at that time.

In May of the same year, Sullivan and Gold increased their share of the club to 60% at a cost of £8m taking their overall investment in shares to £60.5m.

In 2013 David Sullivan invested another £25.5m to buy a further 26.2% of West Ham shares taking their combined shareholding to 86.2% later selling 4.5% of shares to Gold.  The Harris Family and Terry Brown invested by buying 3.4% of the shares for £4m.

Tripp Smith is thought to have paid £9.5m for his 10% shares in 2017 with another £9.5m loaned to the club interest-free.

There was a £30m rights issue in July 2020  with all shareholders putting in money while Sullivan increased his shareholding from 51.1% to 51.5%

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  • blimeylimey says:

    Looks like a shrewd piece of business by Tripp Smith…..
    2017-21 his £19mil. total invest (Assuming his loan is being paid back with the new equity), has been 80% returned and his profit looks to be in excess of £40mil.

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