Latest...22 Jun 2011 11:42
As posted by "decomeau" on iii.........
"As already announced the sale was approved. From 137 paper proxies 18,511,126 votes in favour. Electronically, 18,444,086 in favour and 64,344 against. About 15 people attended and in a show of hands (roughly) 10 for, 5 obstained, none against.
Who was involved in the bidding, Ernst and Young invited 100, 40 entered, 3 bidders performed due dilligence and negotiated. The details of the other two bids couldn't be disclosed but it was mentioned that smaller free cash would have been available and would involve higher risk future payments dependant on financing in the autumn and possibly heavy shareholder dilution.
The official sale should be completed 28th/29th June.
Gratitude to LC was mentioned as during the sale process no banks would support SEA with loans on any terms.
In conversation with Steve Bertram -
Marine Charter would take c 2 years, but the developers aren't going to require vessels until then. A number of potential contracts which if/when signed would allow banks to fund charter. No known dependancy on the sale of SERL for this.
Potential stratergy for metal jacket construction, flat pack from China then constructed at land location near to wind farm and moved out.
S.E.R.L. name being retained as there is a lot of good will associated and Repsol will have no use. The management team for SERL are not being retained and there is no intention for any use and a period of time would need to be observed to avoid confusion between current SERL business and any future use of the SERL name.
In conversation with David Sigsworth -
Inch Cape was funded 25% from SERL and 75% Crown Estate prior to sale. Crown Estate are getting their outlay back from Repsol and hence Repsol obtain 100% of inch cape.
Steve B couldn't give any information on the Offshore Wind Accelerator Access competition regarding results. He did say that the carbon trust were swamped with around 300 entries. SEA submitted 5 and the results should be announced in July.
Whilst Steve didn't say anything official on the results he did give a very strong impression that he couldn't jump the gun on the announcement even though he really wanted to. My interpretation is that the results are unofficailly known and are in favour of SEA.... but that's just my view."