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Mangas Capital Gaming, the majority owner of Betclick, has finally sealed a deal to acquire Expekt’s online sports-betting and gaming operation for between €110m and €125m.

As if MGM Mirage did not have enough woes with their over-leveraged global empire, the tiny principality of Monaco has heaped more pain on the group by opening a battle over the use of the Monte Carlo name for one of MGM’s Las Vegas casinos, and their case has been backed by a leading Federal Court in New York.

Mangas Gaming has supplemented its acquisition of Expekt with a deal for Frankfurt-listed Bet-At-Home which values the firm at close to €40m, giving the majority owner of the Betclick brand a combined business with estimated gross gaming revenues for this year of over €400m.

Mangas Gaming has removed the top management at Expekt in Malta, including the chief executive Per Widerstrom, less than nine months after it bought the company for €118m.

Mangas Capital Gaming, the online gaming investment vehicle of ex-Endemol France head Stephane Courbit and the majority owner of Betclick, is poised to complete the acquisition Scandinavian-facing sports-betting operator Nordicbet within days, according to sources. Fuelling the speculation is the news that NordicBet’s owners, Betpoint, have shuttered their sports-betting joint venture with Scottish football giants Celtic.

Mangas Gaming’s acquisition of GigaMedia’s online gambling arm Everest Gaming is a matter of “days away”, according to investment banking sources.

Mangas Capital Gaming is the sole bidder left in the race to buy up the Everest Gaming operation from GigaMedia, but a deal remains a “long way off” and talk of a deal by mid-October is pure speculation, according to industry insiders.

Reports that PartyGaming is in advanced talks to buy GigaMedia’s Everest Gaming operation have been rejected by industry observers who point out that the timing of recent stock exchange announcements make the notion of an imminent deal far-fetched.

The majority owner of BetClick and recent pursuer of NordicBet is believed to have also run the rule over up-for-sale betting and gaming operator Expekt, according to industry sources.

French casino operator Lucien Barrière is in talks over a possible white label or acquisition deal to find an online sports-betting partner for its LeCroupier.com 3D gaming website. The company plans to launch into sports betting in December, by which point it expects internet gambling licences will be available in its native France.