Toshiba seals US$18b deal to sell chip unit to Bain Capital group
[TOKYO] Japan's Toshiba Corp said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its prized semiconductor business to a group led by US private equity firm Bain Capital LP, a key step in keeping the struggling Japanese conglomerate listed on the Tokyo exchange.
Toshiba said in a nighttime announcement through the exchange it had signed a contract for the deal worth about US$18 billion, the latest and perhaps final twist in a deal that only hours earlier had seen the company leading toward an agreement with its US joint venture partner Western Digital Corp.
The decision to sell the world's No. 2 producer of NAND memory chips, first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, was made at a board meeting earlier in the day.
Toshiba said the agreement assumed the deal would weather legal challenges raised by Western Digital. A Western Digital spokeswoman said the company did not have an immediate comment.
REUTERS
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