Royal Caribbean Cruises will acquire 66.7% of the crocieristica company Monegasque Silversea Cruises



The American crocieristico group Royal Caribbean Cruises (RCL) has signed an agreement in order to acquire the control of the crocieristica company Monegasque Silversea Cruises, that he is of property of Manfredi Lefebvre d' Ovid and has a fleet constituted from the four ship oceanic Silver Wind, Silver Shadow, Silver Whisper, Silver Spirit and Silver Muse to which the cruise ships for shipments Silver Explorer, Silver Galapagos, Silver Discoverer and Silver Cloud come abreast and to which they will join in the 2021 and the 2020 new oceanic ships Silver Moon and Silver Dawn who the company has ordered recently to the navalmeccanico group Fincantieri.

The understanding, that it will be capacity to term in the next few months, previews that RCL acquires 66.7% of the capital stock of Silversea Cruises, acquisition that will happen on the base of a enterprise value of about two billions of dollars and that the group American will carry out through indebtedness in order to retrieve the billion of dollars about that is the price established for the passage of hand of the quota. Moreover the agreement previews that Lefebvre acquires about 472 thousand actions of Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd. whose price will be defined on the base of parameters of relative performances to biennium 2019-2020.

"Silversea - it has emphasized the president and managing director of Royal Caribbean Cruises, Richard Fain - is a jewel and a leader recognized in the field of the shipment and luxury cruises, two important markets that they are ready in order to grow. The union of ours two companies represents an extraordinary opportunity in order to expand the possibilities of vacation for the hosts and in order to generate revenues in strategic areas of increase. We are proud - it has added Fain - to welcome on board to Manfredi Lefebvre, a visionary leader whose elevated standard and whose history of innovation we respect absolutely. Manfredi will continue to being the executive president of Silversea and will continue to get ahead its strategy in the long term".

"This partnership - Manfredi Lefebvre has declared d' Ovid - will strengthen the increase of this exceptional brand founded from my father (Antonio Lefebvre, ndr). I and Richard have always had an analogous spirit and share the vision to offer to excellence and exclusive feature to our hosts. This new partnership offers to Silversea the opportunity to accelerate the increase of the brand of cruise ships of luxury and shipment of greater happen to the world".

Lefebvre and Fain have confirmed that Roberto Martinoli will maintain the charge of managing director of the Silversea Cruises working with the current management of the company.