{"id":565559,"date":"2021-04-15T13:00:40","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/04\/15\/sodic-taps-efg-hemes-to-advise-on-acquisition-bid\/"},"modified":"2021-04-15T13:00:40","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T13:00:40","slug":"sodic-taps-efg-hemes-to-advise-on-acquisition-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/04\/15\/sodic-taps-efg-hemes-to-advise-on-acquisition-bid\/","title":{"rendered":"Sodic taps EFG Hemes to advise on acquisition bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"content-anchor\" id=\"tldr-story-01\"><\/a> <strong>Sodic appointed EFG Hermes to act as its financial advisor in Aldar Properties\u2019 bid to <\/strong><strong>acquire 51% of the Egyptian real estate giant<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2021\/4\/Sodic-EGX.pdf\">according to a regulatory filing (pdf)<\/a>. Sodic appears to have made the hire <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/327297b3-eace-4663-a9d5-45193a9a6bb0\">last week<\/a> to assess the value offered by the Emirati real estate firm. Sodic\u2019s board also approved kicking off the due diligence process from Aldar\u2019s side as well as appointing another independent financial adviser. Aldar <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/65445c53-bf8c-4144-8e37-6daa4e7031c0\">had previously submitted a non-binding offer<\/a> to acquire at least 51% of Sodic\u2019s shares at EGP 18-19 apiece. The offer\u2019s midpoint price values the company at EGP 6.6 bn, and was at a 14% premium above Sodic shares\u2019 closing price at the time the bid was made. Sodic shares closed today at EGP 16.00 apiece.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sodic\u2019s largest shareholder appears to have an open mind<\/strong> and is exploring all possibilities, <a href=\"https:\/\/enterprise.news\/egypt\/en\/news\/story\/327297b3-eace-4663-a9d5-45193a9a6bb0\">it said last month<\/a>. The consortium of Act Financial, Hassan Allam Properties and Concrete Plus Engineering and Construction, holds a 15% stake in Sodic. Olayan Saudi Investment holds 14%, while the Abanumay family has 10% and Ripplewood 9%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IN OTHER M&A NEWS-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Five Stars Flour Mills to be sold off for not paying its debts: <\/strong>Flour maker Five Stars Flour Mills is mulling several acquisition offers from GCC players for 100% of the company, <a href=\"https:\/\/almalnews.com\/%D9%85%D8%B7%D8%A7%D8%AD%D9%86-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AE%D9%85%D8%B3-%D9%86%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%85-%D8%AA%D8%AA%D9%84%D9%82%D9%89-%D8%B9%D8%B1%D9%88%D8%B6-%D8%A7%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%AD%D9%88%D8%A7%D8%B0\/\">Al Mal writes<\/a>, quoting sources close to the matter. The move comes as the company had been struggling to pay off EGP 2 bn in accumulated debt since defaulting on its loans in 2016 after the EGP float.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sodic appointed EFG Hermes to act as its financial advisor in Aldar Properties\u2019 bid to acquire 51% of the Egyptian real estate giant, according to a regulatory filing (pdf). Sodic appears to have made the hire last week to assess the value offered by the Emirati real estate firm. Sodic\u2019s board also approved kicking off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":565560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10045],"tags":[543,215,3047,84,633,3046,7128,312],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-565559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-speed-round-ma-watch","tag-act-financial","tag-aldar-properties","tag-concrete-plus-engineering","tag-efg-hermes","tag-enterprisepm","tag-hassan-allam-properties","tag-ma-watch","tag-sodic","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"6b4de3c6-5d4f-4225-aee3-79e9f129e477","is_powered_by":true,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2021\/4\/432.jpg","photo_position":"above","related_issue":[565555],"teaser":"","voice_url":""},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sodic taps EFG Hemes to advise on acquisition bid - EnterpriseAM Egypt<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2021\/04\/15\/sodic-taps-efg-hemes-to-advise-on-acquisition-bid\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sodic taps EFG Hemes to advise on acquisition bid\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sodic appointed EFG Hermes to act as its financial advisor in Aldar Properties\u2019 bid to acquire 51% of the Egyptian real estate giant, according to a regulatory filing (pdf). 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