{"id":1457,"date":"2019-11-26T15:45:34","date_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:45:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/finance\/2019\/11\/26\/morgan-stanley-fund-offer-for-pne-too-low-shareholders-group-sdk\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:45:34","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T15:45:34","slug":"morgan-stanley-fund-offer-for-pne-too-low-shareholders-group-sdk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/2019\/11\/26\/morgan-stanley-fund-offer-for-pne-too-low-shareholders-group-sdk\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley fund offer for PNE too low: shareholders group SdK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"PrimaryAsset_container\">\n<div class=\"Image_container\" tabindex=\"-1\">\n<figure class=\"Image_zoom\" style=\"padding-bottom:\">\n<div class=\"LazyImage_container LazyImage_dark\" style=\"background-image:none\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/s2.reutersmedia.net\/resources\/r\/?m=02&amp;d=20191126&amp;t=2&amp;i=1456870769&amp;r=LYNXMPEFAP0IG&amp;w=20\" aria-label=\"FILE PHOTO: A sign is displayed on the Morgan Stanley building in New York U.S., July 16, 2018. REUTERS\/Lucas Jackson\/File Photo\"\/><\/div>\n<\/figure><figcaption>\n<p><span>FILE PHOTO: A sign is displayed on the Morgan Stanley building in New York U.S., July 16, 2018. REUTERS\/Lucas Jackson\/File Photo<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners\u2019 (<span id=\"\u201dsymbol_MS.N_0\u201d\"><a href=\"\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/MS.N\">MS.N<\/a><\/span>) offer for PNE (<span id=\"\u201dsymbol_PNEGn.DE_1\u201d\"><a href=\"\/\/www.reuters.com\/companies\/PNEGn.DE\">PNEGn.DE<\/a><\/span>) which values the German renewable firm at 306 million euros ($337 million) is too low, small shareholders group SdK said on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>The 4.00 euro per share bid runs until Nov. 28 and will succeed if more than 50% of shareholders tender their stock.  <\/p>\n<p>Morgan Stanley had secured a 21.9% stake as of Nov. 15. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe cash compensation seems inadequate in our view,\u201d SdK said in a statement. \u201cAgainst the backdrop of continuing market growth and PNE\u2019s good position, we generally recommend not to accept the offer.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>SdK said shareholders should hold on to their stock and bet on a rising share price or a higher offer, adding in case of a domination agreement or a squeeze out a significantly higher price would have to be paid than the current offer. <\/p>\n<p>Two of PNE\u2019s top-10 shareholders, ENKRAFT and Active Ownership Capital, will not tender their shares, according to previous statements.  <\/p>\n<p>They jointly account for about 8% of PNE\u2019s shares. <\/p>\n<div class=\"Attribution_container\">\n<div class=\"Attribution_attribution\">\n<p class=\"Attribution_content\">Reporting by Christoph Steitz; editing by Jason Neely<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"StandardArticleBody_trustBadgeContainer\"><span class=\"StandardArticleBody_trustBadgeTitle\">Our Standards:<\/span><span class=\"trustBadgeUrl\"><a href=\"http:\/\/thomsonreuters.com\/en\/about-us\/trust-principles.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] FILE PHOTO: A sign is displayed on the Morgan Stanley building in New York U.S., July 16, 2018. REUTERS\/Lucas Jackson\/File Photo FRANKFURT (Reuters) &#8211; Morgan Stanley Infrastructure Partners\u2019 (MS.N) offer for PNE (PNEGn.DE) which values the German renewable firm at 306 million euros ($337 million) is too low, small shareholders group SdK said on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":348,"featured_media":1458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/348"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobbinghood.com\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}