Bank of Cyprus rejects Lone Star’s takeover proposal

A passenger makes a transaction at a department of Financial institution of Cyprus on the departures constructing of Larnaca Airport in Larnaca, Cyprus April 15, 2016. REUTERS/Yiannis Kourtoglou/File Photograph

Aug 19 (Reuters) – Non-public fairness agency Lone Star stated on Friday its money proposal to purchase Financial institution of Cyprus Holdings PLC (BOCH.CY) was rejected by the lender’s board.

Shares within the Cyprus-based agency, that are up about 11% up to now this 12 months, closed at round 1.14 euros on Thursday. Financial institution of Cyprus presently has a market cap of 524.3 million euros ($526.66 million), based on Refinitiv.

U.S.-based Lone Star, which invests in actual property, fairness, credit score and different monetary property globally, stated it provided 1.51 euros ($1.52) per share for the financial institution.

The takeover proposal was first reported by Bloomberg Information.

Final 12 months, the financial institution agreed to promote a portfolio of non-performing loans and a few actual property properties to Allianz’s Pimco for round 385 million euros.

($1 = 0.9955 euros)

Reporting by Manya Saini in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Shailesh Kuber

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