Lessons from the KepLand takeover
THE Keppel Corp takeover of Keppel Land was a fascinating and instructive study for minority shareholders, the offerors and perhaps even institutions. Now that the deal has been completed, it might be useful to revisit the salient points.
First, the two-tier offer, with one price appreciably higher than the other. This structure is not common but experts say the higher price is one way of encouraging acceptances to attain the compulsory acquisition threshold.
In the early stage of the Keppel Corp offer, there was confusion over what exactly was needed to activate the second price. Most observers assumed it was 90 per cent of KepLand, which is the widely-known compulsory delisting threshold.
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