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Chairman for International Business, Lazard UK

The courtship by Sunil Mittal's Bharti Airtel of Cyril Ramaphosa's MTN hit the rocks in May. Enter the next ardent suitor: Anil Ambani's Reliance Communications. A marriage between Reliance, India's second largest mobile operator, and MTN, Africa's largest, would create a company that reaches across South Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Reliance has asked Ken Costa of Lazard International (see page 7)to serve as matchmaker....

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Sunil Mittal, Cyril Ramaphosa, Anil Ambani, India, Ken Costa, South Africa, Britain, Korea, Nelson Mandela

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