Monday, June 4, 2007

Steelmaker Evraz Offers $11.40 a Share for Rest of South Africa's Highveld

(Bloomberg) -- Evraz Group SA, a Russian steelmaker
partly owned by billionaire Roman Abramovich, offered about $519
million to buy the shares of Highveld Steel and Vanadium Corp.
Ltd. it doesn't already own.

Evraz will pay $11.40 a share, it said today in a statement
distributed by the Regulatory News Service. Evraz currently
holds about 54 percent of Witbank, South Africa-based Highveld.
The offer for the rest of the stock is mandatory under South
African law, Evraz said. The offer is valid until 5 p.m. South
African time today.


Read more at Bloomberg Emerging Markets News

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