Naturgy Shares Hit the Gas as Fund's Offer Only Partly Accepted
Naturgy Shares Hit the Gas as Fund's Offer Only Partly Accepted
By Joshua Kirby
作者：約書亞·柯比
Shares in Naturgy Energy Group SA surged Thursday after the Spanish utility's shareholders accepted a bid for a stake of just more than 10% from Australia's IFM Global Infrastructure Fund.
Naturgy Energy Group SA的股價週四飆升，此前這家西班牙公用事業公司的股東接受了澳大利亞IFM全球基礎設施基金僅超過10％的股份的出價。
At 1419 GMT, shares traded 4.1% higher at EUR23.89, having earlier reached an intraday high of EUR24.87.
格林威治標準時間14時19分，該股上漲4.1％，至23.89歐元，此前曾觸及盤中高點24.87歐元。
In a release filed to Spain's market regulator CNMV, IFM said that its offer of 22.07 euros a share, made via its Luxembourg-based investment vehicle Global Infraco O (2), had been accepted to the equivalent of just more than 105 million shares, or 10.83% of total Naturgy shares. This represents slightly less than half the shares IFM had bid for.
IFM在向西班牙市場監管機構CNMV提交的新聞稿中表示，其通過其總部位於盧森堡的投資機構Global Infraco O (2) 提出的每股22.07歐元的報價已被接受，相當於僅超過1.05億股股票，佔Naturgy股票總數的10.83％。這略低於IFM競標的股票的一半。
The fund said it had decided to waive the minimum acceptance condition of 17% it had originally stipulated, and would acquire all shares for which its offer had been accepted.
該基金表示，它已決定放棄最初規定的17％的最低接受條件，並將收購其要約被接受的所有股票。
The stake is worth 2.32 billion euros ($2.69 billion), based on the offer price. IFM's original offer, made in January, was for EUR23 a share, but this was later revised downward. The bid was approved by the CNMV in September.
按要約價格計算，該股份價值23.2億歐元（合26.9億美元）。IFM 最初在 1 月份提出的報價是每股 EUR23，但後來向下修正。該競標於9月獲得CNMV的批准。
Following the nod from the CNMV last month, Naturgy's largest shareholder said it opposed the bid from IFM. CriteriaCaixa, an investment holding company linked to CaixaBank SA and which holds just more than a quarter of the company's shares, said the move wasn't in Naturgy's long-term interests.
繼CNMV上個月點頭後，Naturgy的最大股東表示反對IFM的出價。與CaixaBank SA有聯繫的投資控股公司CriteriaCaixa表示，此舉不符合Naturgy的長期利益，該公司持有該公司四分之一以上的股份。
Naturgy declined to comment when contacted by The Wall Street Journal.
當《華爾街日報》聯繫Naturgy時，Naturgy拒絕置評。
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