Calisen PLC accepts takeover offer less than a year after floating

(), the clever meter set up specialist, has agreed to be bought by a consortium of private equity money for £1.4bn.

The board of the FTSE 250-stated group, which only floated in February of this calendar year, has encouraged shareholders accept the offer of 261p hard cash for every share.

This is a top quality of 26.3% to the group’s207p closing value on Thursday but not significantly higher than the 240p at which Calisen floated a lot less than eleven months in the past.

The offer has been made by a consortium consisting of the Worldwide Electrical power & Electrical power Infrastructure Fund III, which is run by , alongside one another with UAE-based mostly co-investor Ninteenth Financial investment Enterprise, and a quantity of money run by (the financial commitment bank that was, by the way, a single of the guide-runners on Calisen’s February flotation).

The Calisen board reported the offer it has approved was the 3rd made by the consortium and, though the company has been awarded most well-liked bidder status on a even further 1.3mln meters because the IPO and endeavor a refinancing which decreased the all round value of financial debt, and remain self-assured of the firm’s skill to obtain its approach as set out at the time of the IPO, chairman Phil Nolan reported: “The all-hard cash offer represents an eye-catching opportunity for all shareholders to crystallise their financial commitment in Calisen in the in close proximity to time period and also delivers a meaningful top quality to the prevailing share value.”

Khaled Al Qubaisi, CEO of the Aerospace, Renewables and Data & Communications Technology organization system of Mubadala, which runs Ninteenth Financial investment Enterprise, reported: “We are excited to be investing into Calisen, an important Uk vitality infrastructure firm which allows drive vitality effectiveness initiatives. The financial commitment suits with Mubadala’s aim to spend in businesses which lead to the vitality transition and offer very long-time period, predictable hard cash stream era.

“We appear forward to operating with our like-minded consortium associates to help administration in providing the clever meter roll-out, and discover ways to continue increasing the organization into adjacent vitality effectiveness sectors.”