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The tendering pact between Oasis Management and Bain Capital's Kakaku.com bidding vehicle expired on 20 August, but Oasis says it won't tender into the rival's ¥3,570 offer unless it rises to ¥3,640 a share, a floor that keeps the vehicle's KDDI-contingent offer competitive ahead of the rival tender's close on 27 August.
Kamgras 1 has lifted its take-private bid for Kakaku.com to ¥3,570 a share, the second price increase since the ¥3,000 opener in May, and pushed the deadline to August 27; Digital Garage and KDDI are declining to tender, choosing instead a post-squeeze-out buyback, with Digital Garage alone planning to reinvest part of its proceeds into a stake in the buyer's parent.
Kamgras 1, the vehicle bidding to take Kakaku.com private, raised its tender offer to ¥3,570 a share on August 13, its second increase since May, after funds advised by Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo offered as much as ¥3,640.
Kamgras 1 has lifted its Kakaku.com tender offer to ¥3,570 a share for the second time this month and pushed the deadline to August 27, arguing a KDDI lock-up makes rival Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo's proposal undeliverable at its stated price.
Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo have offered ¥3,520 a share for Kakaku.com, beating Kamgras 1's ¥3,450 bid, and Kamgras 1 has extended its own tender offer to August 17 as the board weighs which deal to recommend.
Kamgras 1 pushed its tender offer for Kakaku.com to August 17 and reopened price talks on its ¥3,450-a-share bid after Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo floated a higher counter-proposal.
A new offer from a Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo vehicle beats a rival ¥3,450 bid for Kakaku.com, rising to ¥3,640 if the bidder locks in a non-tender pact with KDDI, and forces the target's board back into price talks with the original suitor.
EQT's buyout vehicle for Kakaku.com lifted its tender offer to ¥3,450 a share and pushed the deadline to August 3, betting that Bain Capital and LY Corporation's rival ¥3,500 headline price is unworkable under KDDI's existing non-tender contract.
A ¥3,232-a-share rival proposal pushed Kakaku.com's board off its recommendation to tender into EQT's ¥3,000 buyout, and a Bain Capital vehicle is now lining up its own offer with 19.52% of the company already committed to tender.
Kamgras 1 K.K. needs just 34.9mn Kakaku.com shares tendered, a floor stake of 17.51%, to complete its go-private bid before the offer closes July 16; there is no cap on how much more it can buy.
The move: Kamgras 1 kept its ¥3,000-a-share offer intact but extended the acceptance period, delaying the expected shareholder meeting and shifting the squeeze-out phase into early October.
Kamgras 1's offer can buy unlimited shares at ¥3,000 each, but the filing says it only needs 34,941,000 shares to clear its minimum condition, equal to a 17.51% post-purchase ownership ratio including special related parties.
Bain Capital and LINE Yahoo's binding ¥3,384-a-share proposal, with a possible ¥3,500 price if a KDDI structure is agreed, prompted Kakaku.com to drop its tender recommendation while Kamgras keeps its existing ¥3,000 offer open until July 16.