Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings TEM.UL and China-focused private equity firm Hopu were among five investors buying a $213 million stake in Yashili International Holdings Ltd , after parent China Mengniu Dairy Co Ltd sold down shares to meet Hong Kong listing requirements.
Temasek, through one of its Mauritius subsidiaries, Hopu and three individual investors agreed to buy 471.13 million shares of Yashili from Mengniu for HK$3.50 each, putting the total deal at HK$1.65 billion ($213 million), the dairy companies said in a securities filing on Monday.
Mengniu offered $1.6 billion in June for all of Yashili, but it received offers for 89.82 percent of Yashili's stock. That fell just short of a 90 percent threshold that would have enabled Mengniu to make a "compulsory acquisition" of the remaining shares and delist Yashili from the exchange.
Source: Reuters
