Composite Offer Document Despatched in Hong Kong Regarding the Second Proposed Offer to Privatize NTEEP
09 Junho 2009 - 7:57AM
PR Newswire (US)
HONG KONG, June 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nam Tai Electronics,
Inc. ("Nam Tai" or the "Company") (NYSE Symbol: NTE) announced that
on June 9, 2009, the Company and Nam Tai Electronic &
Electrical Products Limited ("NTEEP"), Nam Tai's 74.88%-owned Hong
Kong Stock Exchange-listed subsidiary (Stock Code: 2633), jointly
issued an announcement regarding the despatch to the independent
shareholders of NTEEP of the composite offer document formally
commencing under Hong Kong's securities law and the rules of the
Hong Kong Stock Exchange Nam Tai's second voluntary conditional
cash offer to privatize NTEEP. In the current, second offer, Nam
Tai is offering US$0.20 (HK$1.52) per NTEEP share equal to a total
cash consideration of approximately US$43.5 million based on the
total number of outstanding shares of NTEEP that the Company does
not already own (referred to in the formal Composite Offer
Document, as the "Offer Shares"). Nam Tai plans to finance the
proposed transaction with its internal resources. As was the case
for the first offer, completion of the new, second offer and the
resulting privatization of NTEEP are conditional upon Nam Tai
receiving acceptances and/or purchases totalling at least 90% of
the Offer Shares. If that condition is satisfied, Nam Tai intends
to exercise compulsory acquisition rights to acquire any remaining
NTEEP shares that it did not acquire in accordance with the new
offer and then withdraw the listing of NTEEP from the Stock
Exchange of Hong Kong. It is expected that the results of the
Second Offer will be known and released around end of June or early
July 2009. As previously announced, because of broker omission and
miscommunication from the Central Clearing and Settlement System
established and operated by the Hong Kong Securities Clearing
Company, which apparently interfered with the success of Nam Tai's
first offer to privatize NTEEP earlier this year, Nam Tai sought
and obtained the consent of the Securities and Futures Commission
of Hong Kong in order to permit Nam Tai to make the second offer
within 12 months of the date Nam Tai's first offer was declared
unsuccessful. The joint announcement by Nam Tai and NTEEP regarding
the despatching of the Composite Offer Document to NTEEP's
independent shareholders, which is also available on NTEEP's
website at http://www.namtaieep.com/news/3.1.html, accompanies this
press release. The formal Composite Offer Document, as so
despatched, is available at the same location on NTEEP's website.
ABOUT NAM TAI ELECTRONICS, INC. We are an electronics manufacturing
and design services provider to a select group of the world's
leading OEMs of telecommunications and consumer electronic
products. Through our electronics manufacturing services
operations, we manufacture electronic components and subassemblies,
including LCD panels, LCD modules, RF modules, DAB modules, FPC
subassemblies and image sensors modules and PCBAs for headsets
containing Bluetooth(*) wireless technology. These components are
used in numerous electronic products, including mobile phones,
laptop computers, digital cameras, electronic toys, handheld video
game devices, and entertainment devices. We also manufacture
finished products, including mobile phone accessories, home
entertainment products and educational products. We assist our OEM
customers in the design and development of their products and
furnish full turnkey manufacturing services that utilize advanced
manufacturing processes and production technologies. (*) The
Bluetooth(R) word mark and logos are owned by the Bluetooth SIG,
Inc. and any use of such marks by Nam Tai is under license.
DATASOURCE: Nam Tai Electronics, Inc. CONTACT: Anthony Chan,
Investor relations of Nam Tai Electronics, Inc., (852) 2341 0273,
Fax: (852) 2263 1223, or Web Site: http://www.namtai.com/
http://www.namtaieep.com/
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