The founders of Getty Images are set to pocket almost $2 billion (£1.6 billion) from the sale of their stake in the company after activist investor Trillium Capital said it had made a cash offer to take the company private.
Trillium, which already owns 500,000 shares in the New-York listed business, has offered to buy the rest at $10 each in a deal which values the company at just shy of $4 billion.
