Demerger question?5 Mar 2022 20:57
What does the below statement mean? What is this $8B referring to? Is it the cost of the demerger to EVR?
"EVRAZ does not currently have sufficient distributable reserves to make the in specie distribution of all of its RASP shares and therefore to effect the Demerger. As an interim step, the EVRAZ Board proposes to capitalise the sum of US$8,200,000,000 currently standing to the credit of EVRAZ's profit and loss reserve by way of issuing certain capital reduction shares (the "Capital Reduction Shares"), and subsequently to reduce the Company's share capital by cancelling the Capital Reduction Shares, so as to create sufficient distributable reserves to effect the Demerger (the "Capital Reduction")."