Australia’s TerraCom offers to buy rest of Universal Coal
Monday, February 3rd, 2020
Australian coal miner TerraCom Ltd (TER.AX) offered to buy the remaining shares of Universal Coal PLC (UNV.AX) that it does not already own, in a deal that values the company at about A$175 million ($119.68 million).
Under the cash-and-stock deal, a Universal shareholder will get 10 cents in cash and about 0.6026 new TerraCom shares for each Universal share held.
The offer values each Universal share at 33.5 cents, a premium of 42.6% to Friday’s close.
TerraCom’s primary operating mine – Blair Athol – is in Queensland, while Universal’s top operations are in South Africa.
The deal comes at a time when Australia faces global ire for its policy of using old carbon credits to count toward future emission targets, which also emerged as a major sticking point in a U.N. climate summit in December.
Australia, which relies on coal-fired power making it one of the world’s largest carbon emitters per capita, approved a huge new coal mine by India’s Adani Enterprises (ADEL.NS) last year.
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