RE: He has been involved in multiple mining cross-border M&A transactions operating from Moscow, London3 Feb 2021 21:43
Why Norilsk, quite simple really hoochy, they have global palladium market dominance, they won't want to give that up. Could potentially move with a few people involved, but, make no mistake, Norilsk will be at the helm of it all.
They also had a meeting with UBS just the other week, pretty hush hush, points to a NDA environment, and strangely enough it was after the RNS of non binding deals being on the table.
Why would they need to go to UBS, the answer is in what CAW posted, a bidding war to be victorious in -
"On May 3, 2007, Norilsk Nickel made an initial unsolicited offer for all the issued and outstanding common shares of LionOre at a price of $21.50 in cash per share, for a total cash consideration of $5.3 billion. Norilsk Nickel's initial offer was in response to the prior offer of Xstrata plc (of Zug, Switzerland) announced on March 23, which had valued LionOre at $18.50 per common share, or $4.6 billion in totals. Norilsk Nickel's initial offer represented a premium of approximately 16.2 per cent over the Xstrata offer. Xstrata then increased its offer from $18.50 to $25.00 in cash per LionOre common share ($6.2 billion in total) on May 15, 2007, and on May 23, 2007, Norilsk Nickel increased its offer to $27.50 per LionOre common share ($6.8 billion in total), 10 per cent more than Xstrata's offer of $25.00 per share."
Should we expect an approx 20 day bidding war from Jan 14th before news?. A little to and fro between the remaining strongest bidders. That would be Wed, RNS dropped Thurs?, who knows, but at this stage, it really can land at any moment now tbh.
GLA