Singapore state investment firm Temasek Holdings Pte offered S$1.2 billion ($880 million) to buy out SMRT Corp., 16 years after the company became the first Asian subway operator outside of Japan to list shares.
The S$1.68 a share proposal, an 8.7 percent premium from the last traded price, values the rail operator at S$2.6 billion. The price is fair and final, Temasek President Chia Song Hwee said in Singapore Wednesday after the buyout, first reported by Bloomberg News this week, was made public...............................................Full Article: Source
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