据道琼斯艾伯塔省卡尔加里11月26日消息,加拿大油砂公司提交给监管部门的文件显示,有20多个潜在买家表示有兴趣发出收购提议,其中包括四个“可靠性很高的潜在买家”。该公司提交这些文件旨在挫败森科能源公司的敌意收购计划。
其他潜在买家对加拿大油砂公司的收购兴趣也许会导致森科能源的收购计划进程放缓。此前森科能源提出以全股票方式收购加拿大油砂公司,收购提议对后者的估值约为44.7亿加元(约合33.6亿美元),收购提议的最后有效期限为12月4日。加拿大油砂公司是Syncrude油砂项目的最大权益所有者。
加拿大油砂公司上个月以报价太低为由拒绝了森科能源的收购提议,并要求艾伯塔省的证券监管部门动用森科能源提出收购提议后制定的股权摊薄反收购措施条款。加拿大油砂公司的股东拥有至少120天时间考虑是否接受该提议。
庞晓华摘译自道琼斯
原文如下:
Canadian Oil Sands Cites Potential Suitors in Effort to Fend Off Suncor
By Chester Dawson
CALGARY, Alberta--More than two dozen potential suitors have expressed interest in making an offer for Canadian Oil Sands Ltd., including four "highly credible parties," according to documents the company filed in an effort to thwart Suncor Energy Inc.'s hostile bid.
The interest by other parties may slow Suncor's momentum ahead of a Dec. 4 deadline it has set for a response to its all-stock bid--currently worth about 4.47 billion Canadian dollars ($3.36 billion)--for Canadian Oil Sands, the largest owner of the Syncrude oil-sands mining consortium.
Canadian Oil Sands last month rejected Suncor's bid as too low and asked securities authorities in its home province of Alberta to uphold a "poison pill" provision enacted after Suncor made its bid that gives shareholders at least 120 days to consider a takeover offer.