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Offer by HAL Holding to acquire the entire share capital of Royal Boskalis Westminster
HAL Investments currently owns 46.2% of Boskalis
March 10, 2022
The Dutch HAL Holding, which has its registered office in the Caribbean island Dutch from Curaçao, submitted an offer to acquire the entire capital of compatriot Royal Boskalis Westminster, company listed on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, of which currently holds 46.2% through HAL Investments. The offer is based on a price of 32.50 euros per share, a figure that assigns to the boskalis share capital worth 4.2 billion euros and assumes for HAL Holding a disbursement of approximately 1.9 billion euro for the acquisition of shares not yet in its possession.
HAL, which entered the capital of Boskalis in 1989, has investments in the industrial, technological, real estate sectors, medical and energetic and is also present in the sector maritime-port, as well as with the share in Boskalis, through 48.15% stake in the terminalista company Dutch Vopak, 63.00% stake in the company Dutch shipowner Anthony Veder and 21.91% stake in the Dutch shipping company SBM Offshore.
Royal Boskalis Westminster is active in the port and coastal dredging and engineering activities connected, in that of the port trailer through the joint ventures Keppel Smit Towage and Smit Lamnalco, in the field of maritime rescue through SMIT Salvage and in the segment of offshore energy. The company has a fleet of over 600 units naval and employs more than 10 thousand people.
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