ReNew shareholders raise offer for $880 million delisting

Synopsis

A consortium including Masdar and Sumant Sinha has increased its offer to $8 per share, totaling $880 million, to acquire the remaining stake in ReNew Energy Global and delist it from Nasdaq. This revised bid follows an initial offer last December and aims to buy out the 27.5% stake held by other shareholders.

A consortium of key shareholders of ReNew Energy Global has raised the offer price to $8 per share from $7.07 last December for buying out other shareholders in a $880 million bid to delist the company.

ReNew on Friday said it has received "a final non-binding offer" from the consortium of Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company PJSC-Masdar, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Platinum Hawk, and ReNew founder and chairman Sumant Sinha, to acquire the entire issued and to-be-issued share capital of the company currently not held by them.

At $8 per share, the consortium will have to pay $880 million to other shareholders who together own 27.5% stake in ReNew. The revised offer lifted shares of ReNew, which closed 11% higher at $7.67 apiece on Thursday on the Nasdaq.

If the consortium succeeds in buying out all other shareholders, it will be able to delist ReNew shares from Nasdaq where it has underperformed since its listing in 2021.

ETMarkets.com

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A special committee of independent directors was formed in December to consider the consortium's proposal. The panel is in the process of evaluating the final non-binding offer, the company said. So far, no shares have been tendered by other shareholders to the consortium. The consortium engaged with the panel for months and undertook due diligence before deciding to revise its offer price.

"Our due diligence investigation has allowed us to assess the performance of the company and its outlook and refine our view on valuation," the consortium wrote in an email to the committee on July 2, a copy of which has been filed with the US market regulator.

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