In today’s briefing:
- Mandatory Block Deal Pre-Announcement Requirement in Korea Starting 24 July: Impact on Block Deals
- Tender Offer of Jeisys Medical by Archimed Group
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Mandatory Block Deal Pre-Announcement Requirement in Korea Starting 24 July: Impact on Block Deals
- Starting 24 July, there will be a mandatory pre-announcement requirement for block deal sales in Korea.
- In other words, the major shareholders of the Korean companies need to report publicly prior to their actual sales of their stakes in these companies through block deal sales.
- The potential block deal sales candidates could continue to underperform on average the companies that are selling these stocks in potential block deal sales in the next several weeks.
Tender Offer of Jeisys Medical by Archimed Group
- On 10 June, it was announced that France’s Archimed Group is conducting a tender offer of 55.72 million shares of Jeisys Medical (287410 KS) (72% of outstanding shares).
- The tender offer period will run from 10 June to 22 July. The tender offer price is 13,000 won.
- Archimed also signed a contract to purchase the entire stake (23.2%) held by Kang Don-Hwan (Chairman of Jeisys Medical) and (3.2%) held by a Director Myung-Hoon Lee.