RE: Takeover16 Jan 2018 11:19
In 2011 Regal was bought by Energees Management Ltd for �77m. EML are one of the Ukraine's largest business conglomerates. They fought hard to buy the company too seeing rival powerful Ukranian Victor Pinchuk, whom Forbes records as having a fortune of $3.1 billion (�1.9 billion) and is married to the daughter of the country's former president.
Alexey Pertin, director of Energees Investments, which owns Energees Management Limited, and chief executive of parent company Smart Holding Group, said at the weekend that the Regal acquisition would further Smart Holding�s goal of becoming the number one diversified natural resources holding company in Ukraine.
It looks like the recovery in the price of oil and gas has sparked EML into life. Maybe another asset purchase or sale?