A consortium led by global private equity firm Bain Capital will buy all the shares of Hitachi Metals Ltd for $7.5 billion, Hitachi Ltd’s metals subsidiary said on Wednesday.
For Hitachi, which currently owns 53% of Hitachi Metals, the deal is the latest divestiture in a decade-long business overhaul to pivot the business from electronics hardware to digital services.
The Bain-led consortium, which includes two Japanese funds, will offer $20.3 per share to buy the 47% of Hitachi Metals not owned by Hitachi at a premium of 15.8% to Tuesday’s closing price. It will spend a further roughly $3.5bn acquiring Hitachi’s 53% stake.
Hitachi Metals will be delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange.
Hitachi is expecting to book extraordinary profit of around $3bn in the current financial year, it said in a separate statement.
Hitachi has sought buyers since last year for the business which has posted net losses for two consecutive years in a deteriorating business environment.
In recent years it has also sold chemical unit Hitachi Chemical Co to Showa Denko and diagnostic imaging business to Fujifilm Holdings Corp.
Source: Reuters
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