Cheniere Energy, Inc. ends negotiations to acquire Cheniere Energy Partners LP Holdings, LLC
HOUSTON -- Cheniere Energy, Inc. announced today that it has terminated negotiations with the conflicts committee of the board of directors of Cheniere Energy Partners LP Holdings, LLC regarding Cheniere's previously announced non-binding proposal to acquire all of the publicly held shares of Cheniere Partners Holdings not already owned by Cheniere in a stock-for-stock merger transaction.
The proposed transaction was subject to the negotiation and execution of a definitive agreement and approval by the board of directors of Cheniere, the board of directors of Cheniere Partners Holdings and a conflicts committee established by the board of directors of Cheniere Partners Holdings.
As previously announced, the consideration initially offered by Cheniere was 0.5049 Cheniere shares for each outstanding publicly-held share of Cheniere Partners Holdings, which represented a premium of approximately 3% over the closing price of Cheniere Partners Holdings' shares based on the closing prices of Cheniere Partners Holdings' shares and of Cheniere's shares as of Sept. 29, or a premium of approximately 7% over the 30-trading day average CQH / LNG exchange ratio as of Sept. 29.
After more than six weeks of negotiations, and raising the offer to an exchange ratio of 0.54, Cheniere has determined that no acceptable definitive agreement can be reached with the conflicts committee at this time.
Cheniere currently owns 80.1% of the issued and outstanding shares of Cheniere Partners Holdings. Cheniere may, subject to market and general economic conditions and other factors, purchase additional shares of Cheniere Partners Holdings in the open market or in privately negotiated transactions from time to time.
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