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Global Ship Lease announces the examination of possible strategic alternatives
Webber: we are one of the little societies of the field in a position to developing the fleet, attracting complementary capital or to find partner for a fusion
January 19, 2018
Global Ship Lease (GSL), society that center in the Marshall Islands has and that it possesses a fleet of 18 portacontenitori ships of which 16 rented to the French company CMA CGM, has announced today that own board of directors has named the Evercore in quality of advisor financial for having the support of the American society in the examination of possible strategic alternatives, between which a - it has specified GSL - social acquisition, an aggregation or a partnership business, alternatives - it has specified Global Ship Lease - that they will be estimated while they will continue to being pursued opportunity in order to continue to increase the fleet.
"After to have completed the bond emission from 360 million dollars with expiration 2022, that the expiration of our main financings has postponed a lot, and after to have agreed the correlated financing assisted from guarantees, both realized to favorable conditions - the managing director of Global Ship Lease has explained, Ian Webber - we consider that now it is right time in order to explore alternatives strategic in order to maximize the value for the shareholders".
Webber has emphasized that GSL "is one of the little quoted societies that they rent portacontainer in a position to acquiring interesting pocketbooks of ships, attracting capital for the complementary increase or to find partner for a fusion. Moreover, depending on the cyclical resumption of the field of the containerized marine transport - it has specified - we continue to concentrate itself on the opportunities in the short term in order to increase our fleet and meanwhile to explore an immense range of strategic alternatives for giving more value to the shareholders".
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