Emis Shares Jump After Agreeing to $1.53 Billion UnitedHealth Takeover
17 Junio 2022 - 10:40AM
Noticias Dow Jones
By Ian Walker
Shares of EMIS Group PLC jumped 46% on Friday after the company
said that it has agreed to a 1.24 billion pound ($1.53 billion)
cash offer from UnitedHealth Group Inc.
Under the deal, accepting shareholders of the U.K.-listed
healthcare-software provider will get 1,925 pence in cash for each
share held. The price is a 49% premium to EMIS's closing price of
1,292.0 pence on Thursday.
Shares at 1456 GMT were up 598.0 pence at 1,890 pence.
The offer is being made by Bordeaux UK Holdings II Ltd., an
affiliate of Optum Health Solutions (UK) Ltd., and subsidiary of
UnitedHealth.
"We believe this combination will have the resources and
expertise to enable us to better support the NHS and clinicians
through technology innovations... We therefore consider that the
combined group will be well positioned to serve its customers and
partners in the U.K.'s healthcare system, whilst ensuring EMIS
remains a strong organization supporting the NHS, thereby
fulfilling EMIS's purpose of enabling better care through
technology innovation," Emis's Chief Executive Andy Thorburn
said.
Write to Ian Walker at ian.walker@wsj.com
(END) Dow Jones Newswires
June 17, 2022 11:25 ET (15:25 GMT)
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