(Reuters) – HHLA said on Friday that a subsidiary of Swiss-based MSC had received all regulatory approvals for a voluntary public takeover offer of the German port operator. Merger control clearance had been granted by Ukraine, it said, where HHLA operates a terminal in the Black Sea harbour of Odessa, after the European Commission granted […]
(Reuters) – HHLA said on Friday that a subsidiary of Swiss-based MSC had received all regulatory approvals for a voluntary public takeover offer of the German port operator.
Merger control clearance had been granted by Ukraine, it said, where HHLA operates a terminal in the Black Sea harbour of Odessa, after the European Commission granted clearance of the takeover at the beginning of October.
HHLA said MSC – the world’s biggest container shipping company – will pay 16.75 euros ($17.72) per A share to shareholders who tendered their shares in the voluntary public takeover offer.
Last year, MSC offered to buy almost half of the main operator of Hamburg port, with the city of Hamburg, which owns 69% of HHLA’s A shares and all of its unlisted S-shares, retaining control with a 50.1% stake via the S-shares.
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(Reporting by Bernadette Hogg, Editing by Friederike Heine)
