Examples of Preference Share Acquisition in a sentence
The price will be adjusted by varying the number of New Ordinary Shares to be issued under the Preference Share Acquisition.
The Banks have also agreed to sell all of their holding (representing 94 per cent.) of New Star Preference Shares to be issued under the proposed New Star Restructuring to Henderson under the Preference Share Acquisition.
The price will be adjusted by varying the number of New Henderson Shares that may be issued under the Preference Share Acquisition.
The Preference Share Acquisition is expected to value each New Star Preference Share at up to 73.4 pence and the then issued preference share capital of New Star at up to £73.4 million, based on the closing middle market price per Henderson Ordinary Share of 62 pence on 29 January 2009.
The terms of the Preference Share Acquisition also provide for a downward adjustment to the cash consideration payable to New Star Preference Shareholders by the amount (if any) that the closing unrestricted cash balance of New Star on the day prior to the day on which the Offer becomes or is declared wholly unconditional (or, if earlier, 15 May 2009) is ess than £20 million.
This is a valuable finding given many people's discomfort with expressing numerical probabilities (yet they seem to have little difficulty with the probability-equivalent decile scale).
Under the terms of the Preference Share Acquisition, 94 million New Star Preference Shares in issue will be acquired by Henderson Group on completion and, in respect of a further 6 million unissued New Star Preference Shares, options will be granted to certain directors and employees within the New Star Group.
Henderson, New Star and the Banks have entered into the Implementation Agreement which provides, amongst other things, for the implementation of the Preference Share Acquisition, and contains certain assurances and confirmations between the parties, including in relation to: • using reasonable efforts to ensure the implementation of the Offer; and • undertakings being given in relation to the acceptance by the Banks of the Offer.
Although the Preference Share Acquisition is subject to a price adjustment as described in paragraph 2 of this Part V, the Offer will not be subject to any price adjustment mechanism.The Offer is conditional on, among other things:• acceptances in relation to the Offer being received in respect of not less than 90 per cent.
The funding comprises: • Internal cash resources of approximately £50 million;• Cash raised from the placing of New Henderson Shares of approximately £40 million; and• The issue of approximately 40.3 million New Henderson Shares, valued at £25 million, to the New Star Preference Shareholders pursuant to the Preference Share Acquisition, assuming no price adjustment.