Canada’s Brookfield to buy freight firm Asciano for $8.84 billion
By: Reuters | Aug 17 2015 at 08:49 AM | Intermodal
Canada’s Brookfield Infrastructure said it will buy Australia’s rail freight firm Asciano Ltd for about A$12 billion ($8.84 billion).
Asciano shareholders will receive A$6.94 in cash and A$2.21 in Brookfield Infrastructure Ltd Partnership units for every share held, which works out to A$9.15, Brookfield said on Monday.
The offer is a 13 percent premium to Asciano’s last traded price of A$8.11. Asciano requested a trading halt on Monday. ($1 = 1.35 Australian dollars)