Rubis
Énergie SAS’ cash offer to purchase all the issued shares of KenolKobil
Plc at a price of KES 23 per share has been approved by the Capital
Markets Authority and offer documents will be posted to KenolKobil Plc
shareholders on 14th January 2019. The cash offer will close on 18th February 2019.
The cash offer has also been approved by the Competition Authority of Kenya and the COMESA Competition Commission.
The
Board of Directors of KenolKobil Plc, after receiving an independent
financial advisor’s report on the cash offer, has considered the offer
and has recommended that the shareholders of KenolKobil Plc accept the
offer.
Rubis
Énergie SAS considers that KenolKobil Plc’s shareholders will find the
offer price of KES 23 per share very attractive as it represents
a 53.4 per cent premium to the volume weighted average price at which
KenolKobil Plc shares traded over the 30 trading days preceding the
issuance of the notice of intention to take-over by Rubis Énergie SAS in
October 2018 and is higher than the prices at
which KenolKobil Plc shares have traded since then.
As
the cash offer has been recommended for acceptance by KenolKobil Plc
directors, and has received most of the requisite
regulatory approvals, and given the attractive offer price, Rubis
Énergie SAS is confident that the cash offer will be accepted by
KenolKobil Plc shareholders and that the cash offer will complete
successfully.
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