Calisen PLC accepts takeover offer less than a year after floating

(), the good meter installation specialist, has agreed to be bought by a consortium of private fairness resources for £1.4bn.

The board of the FTSE 250-listed group, which only floated in February of this 12 months, has encouraged shareholders acknowledge the present of 261p money per share.

This is a premium of 26.3% to the group’s207p closing cost on Thursday but not a lot higher than the 240p at which Calisen floated fewer than 11 months ago.

The present has been produced by a consortium consisting of the International Electricity & Power Infrastructure Fund III, which is operate by , collectively with UAE-centered co-trader Ninteenth Financial investment Business, and a number of resources operate by (the expense lender that was, by the way, just one of the reserve-runners on Calisen’s February flotation).

The Calisen board mentioned the present it has approved was the 3rd produced by the consortium and, even though the company has been awarded most popular bidder position on a additional 1.3mln meters considering the fact that the IPO and undertaking a refinancing which diminished the general price tag of credit card debt, and remain confident of the firm’s ability to attain its approach as established out at the time of the IPO, chairman Phil Nolan mentioned: “The all-money present represents an desirable prospect for all shareholders to crystallise their expense in Calisen in the in close proximity to expression and also presents a significant premium to the prevailing share cost.”

Khaled Al Qubaisi, CEO of the Aerospace, Renewables and Data & Communications Engineering company platform of Mubadala, which operates Ninteenth Financial investment Business, mentioned: “We are enthusiastic to be investing into Calisen, an important Uk electrical power infrastructure company which helps travel electrical power efficiency initiatives. The expense fits with Mubadala’s intention to invest in companies which add to the electrical power transition and present extensive-expression, predictable money movement generation.

“We search forward to functioning with our like-minded consortium partners to assist management in offering the good meter roll-out, and check out ways to keep on increasing the company into adjacent electrical power efficiency sectors.”