Bid coming today or tomorrow16 Apr 2015 09:49
Sinarmas Plans Formal Offer for ARMS This Week, Adviser Says
2015-04-16 07:41:49.144 GMT
By David Yong
(Bloomberg) -- Sinarmas-backed Asia Coal Energy Ventures
plans to make takeover offer for Asia Resource Minerals this
week, adviser Neil Passmore, CEO of London-based Hannam &
Partners says in phone interview.
* ACE indicated 41p/share offer for ARMS on April 14, hasn’t
been able to discuss offer with ARMS, he says
* Sean Wade, a spokesman for ARMS and Berau in London,
declined to comment
* Offer is purely “financial and commercial” and funded
predominantly by Sinarmas and HK-based hedge fund Argyle
Street Management: Passmore
* Existing offer gives Nat Rothschild control of ARMS without
paying the “control premium": Passmore
* ACE/Argyle don’t have enough votes to defeat the Rothschild
plan on April 22 and are ‘‘feeling positive’’ with ongoing
talks with Stanchart, Raiffeisen and other shareholders:
Passmore
* Sinarmas sees value in Berau Coal and plans talk with
bondholders: Passmore
* Sinarmas’s history is a ‘‘minor issue’’ to bondholders and
not a hindrance, has ‘‘behaved well’’ to investors providing
capital to the group in recent years: Passmore