Cathay to acquire HK Express
Mar 26, 2019, 6:35 pm
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Mar 26, 2019, 6:44 pm
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Hopefully our board-mate didn't engage in insider trading 
More interested in knowing such arrangement...
Completion is conditional upon certain conditions being fulfilled... the termination or variation of certain arrangements between HKE and its related parties
Mar 26, 2019, 6:49 pm
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A firm of solicitors acting for a shareholder of an intermediate holding company of HKE has written to the Company indicating an intention to contest the Seller's entry into an agreement for the Transaction... (CX) has the right under the Share Purchase Agreement to terminate the Share Purchase Agreement if proceedings are commenced to prevent the Transaction
Mar 26, 2019, 7:07 pm
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Last edited by kaka; Mar 26, 2019 at 8:12 pm
Mar 26, 2019, 7:40 pm
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"The Acquisition will be conditioned upon, among other things, the approval of the Scheme by the ****** shareholders, the passing of the necessary shareholder resolutions by the ******* shareholders, the sanction of the Scheme by a Jersey court and the receipt of certain regulatory approvals. The conditions to the Acquisition are set out in full in Appendix I to the Rule 2.7 Announcement. It is expected that, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of all relevant conditions, the Acquisition will be completed in the first half of 201X."
But to your point, interested to see HKE does not seem to require disclosure of such agreements.
Mar 26, 2019, 8:17 pm
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This definitely appears to be the nail in the coffin for any sort of competitive environment at HKG. Being loyal to CX is no longer going to be a choice (not that it currently is anyway...).
Mar 26, 2019, 8:18 pm
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i dont see how a state owned company enhances any competition except causing an unfair advantage
Mar 26, 2019, 8:49 pm
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Hopefully the local tycoons do go through with buying HX, and so it'll end up being vs the CX giant...
Either way, better than being kept under the thumb of HNA. One reason the chairman didn't want to sell was because apparently the Chinese govt did not want to sell to a British family business?
Either way, better than being kept under the thumb of HNA. One reason the chairman didn't want to sell was because apparently the Chinese govt did not want to sell to a British family business?
Mar 26, 2019, 9:04 pm
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Hopefully the local tycoons do go through with buying HX, and so it'll end up being vs the CX giant...
Either way, better than being kept under the thumb of HNA. One reason the chairman didn't want to sell was because apparently the Chinese govt did not want to sell to a British family business?
Either way, better than being kept under the thumb of HNA. One reason the chairman didn't want to sell was because apparently the Chinese govt did not want to sell to a British family business?
only the local china liason office who is nosing around
the chinese govt would have told cx to keep their hands off thru the CA 29.99% ownership if china really wants this deal dead... but CX is also writing off the 2.7B debt HX to UO (which is the main reason for this deal)
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Mar 26, 2019, 9:24 pm
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Hopefully our board-mate didn't engage in insider trading
Off course not as no specific details were shared despite the moderator trying to pin down on the information (wishful thinking) even with him locking down the post.
More interested in knowing such arrangement...
Off course not as no specific details were shared despite the moderator trying to pin down on the information (wishful thinking) even with him locking down the post.
More interested in knowing such arrangement...
This acquisition is a sweet deal for CX as they can pick up on HX's downscaling and grow HK Express operations and scale this with their other airline operations.
Mar 26, 2019, 9:36 pm
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Scale includes negative scale right? I thought the justification for the deal is to basically (re-)corner the HKG market and whip ex-HKG til we're all bleeding from places we don't want people to see.
Mar 26, 2019, 9:40 pm
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The arrangements were all the weird arrangements they had with HNA travel agency and how they would account for the revenues which never materialised. The same goes on at Hong Kong Airlines.
This acquisition is a sweet deal for CX as they can pick up on HX's downscaling and grow HK Express operations and scale this with their other airline operations.
This acquisition is a sweet deal for CX as they can pick up on HX's downscaling and grow HK Express operations and scale this with their other airline operations.
Mar 26, 2019, 10:06 pm
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It is a sad day for HongKongers.
With the help of their government buddies blocking the creation of other HK-based airlines, CX manages to eliminate competition. No surprise that exHKG is the most expensive origin in Asia.
With the help of their government buddies blocking the creation of other HK-based airlines, CX manages to eliminate competition. No surprise that exHKG is the most expensive origin in Asia.