Calisen PLC accepts takeover offer less than a year after floating

(), the intelligent meter installation specialist, has agreed to be bought by a consortium of private equity funds for £1.4bn.

The board of the FTSE 250-mentioned team, which only floated in February of this year, has suggested shareholders settle for the offer of 261p money per share.

This is a premium of 26.three% to the group’s207p closing price on Thursday but not significantly larger than the 240p at which Calisen floated considerably less than eleven months ago.

The offer has been produced by a consortium consisting of the World wide Energy & Electrical power Infrastructure Fund III, which is run by , together with UAE-centered co-investor Ninteenth Investment decision Organization, and a selection of funds run by (the investment decision bank that was, incidentally, a person of the e book-runners on Calisen’s February flotation).

The Calisen board stated the offer it has acknowledged was the third produced by the consortium and, while the company has been awarded chosen bidder position on a additional 1.3mln meters given that the IPO and undertaking a refinancing which minimized the in general price of personal debt, and remain assured of the firm’s capability to reach its method as established out at the time of the IPO, chairman Phil Nolan stated: “The all-money offer represents an eye-catching chance for all shareholders to crystallise their investment decision in Calisen in the near term and also supplies a significant premium to the prevailing share price.”

Khaled Al Qubaisi, CEO of the Aerospace, Renewables and Facts & Communications Technological innovation company platform of Mubadala, which operates Ninteenth Investment decision Organization, stated: “We are enthusiastic to be investing into Calisen, an important British isles strength infrastructure enterprise which assists push strength effectiveness initiatives. The investment decision fits with Mubadala’s goal to invest in corporations which contribute to the strength transition and offer very long-term, predictable money circulation generation.

“We seem ahead to doing the job with our like-minded consortium partners to aid management in delivering the intelligent meter roll-out, and discover strategies to continue on expanding the company into adjacent strength effectiveness sectors.”