Deutsche Boerse: over 75% membership by merger with the LSE offer – Italian Stock Exchange

Alliance finalized during the first half of 2017 (Il Sole 24 Ore Thomson Plus) – Berlin, 10 Dec – Deutsche Boerse announced that more than 75% of the share capital, the minimum threshold required approval, and ‘was made the proposed merger with the London Stock Exchange (LSE) and added to rely on a transaction finalized during the first half of 2017. as it said in a statement issued by Deutsche Boerse, “the transaction and ‘still conditioned to overcoming a series of stages, “however, the two sides” are planning to finalize the transaction in the first half of 2017 “. The alliance between the operator of the German stock exchange with the London market and ‘was announced in the last year and will bring’ March to the birth of a giant financial intermediation although in recent weeks had emerged fears on the success of the project in light of the expected exit of Britain from the EU. The LSE shareholders approved the merger in early July while Deutsche Boerse, on July 11, had lowered the minimum acceptance threshold from 75% to 60% at least, and that this threshold ‘was passed with 63% already’ in the first offer period, in late July. Deutsche Boerse has subsequently extended the acceptance period until midnight on August 12. The final figure for the offer of exchange with the new holding titles that will take ‘to complete the merger will be’ announced on August 17. The main obstacles to the project should, however, from the face of the authorities ‘competent and by the fact that in Germany there are many critical voices on the fact that the headquarters of the new holding company will be’ London.

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