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Old Oct 31, 2023 | 7:11 am
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stupidhead
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Originally Posted by moondog
No. My thinking is that since the OZ board is currently cornered and they know that KE doesn't want the cargo unit, THEY could spin it out themselves prior to the merger and give their shareholders stock in the new entity.

With respect to market value, if they put it on the open market and the highest offer is 5% of the asset value (or valuations based on future cash flows), that is market value.
So effectively spin off the passenger business and sell that to KE. I suppose that could work.

Still doesn't guarantee the EU will be happy with that. And it didn't seem like KDB was all that amenable to splitting up OZ either.

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