Friday, 10 March 2017

IW City surges past RM1.50 reference price

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KUALA LUMPUR: Shares of Iskandar Waterfront City Bhd (IWC) surged to a high of RM2.25, or 75 sen over the reference cost of RM1.50 in the proposed merger with significant shareholder Iskandar Waterfront Holdings Sdn Bhd (IWH). 

At 11.29am, IWC was up 49 sen to RM2.25. There were 103.66 million shares done. 

The FBM KLCI fell 3.09 focuses to 1,714.33. Turnover was 1.26 billion shares esteemed at RM972.97mil. There were 295 gainers, 398 washouts and 371 counters unaltered. 

The corporate exercise included IWH assuming control over the posting status of IWC by means of share swap. 

Maybe setting off the surge was an elucidation by Tan Sri Lim Kang Hoo, who wons 63% of IWH, that IWH will incorporate its 30% stake in the Bandar Malaysia extend as a component of its proposed corporate exercise. 

On Thursday, StarBiz announced the proportion is on the premise of one IWC share to be traded for one partake in an augmented IWH. The new-look IWH (Newco) will likewise possess up to 7,400 sections of land of land fronting the ocean between Johor Baru and Singapore. 

IWH right now is 63%-claimed by Lim through his privately owned business Credence Resources Sdn Bhd, while the rest of the shares are held by Kumpulan Prasarana Rakyat Johor (KPRJ). IWH holds a 38.34% stake in IWC that has 1,072 sections of land predominantly situated in Tebrau, Johor. 

IWH, then again, has 3,900 sections of land of waterfront land, of which 80% has been asserted. 

The corporate exercise suggests that all land outside IWH that is possessed by Lim and KPRJ be merged in return for new partakes in the NewCo and redeemable convertible inclination offers (RCPS). 

The measure of land to be infused into the NewCo is 3,593 sections of land. Of the sum, Lim's bit is 452 sections of land esteemed at RM2.6bil. 

Upon the finish of the merger and rebuilding, the extended share capital of IWH is relied upon to be up to 4.3 billion shares, and if in light of the offer cost of IWC at RM1.50, the market capitalisation of the NewCo would be RM6.45bil. 

The reference cost for the activity is set at IWC's share cost of RM1.50. The offer cost for the share swap is a 14% premium over the 30-day volume-weighted normal cost of IWC shares. 

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