TOKYO, March 23 - Toyota's tender offer to buy out Toyota Industries at 20,600 yen a share closed on Monday, with the company set to announce the outcome at or after 3:30 p.m. Tokyo time on Tuesday (0630 GMT). The 20,600 yen bid, which values the proposed transaction at roughly $30 billion, capped a round of upward revisions to Toyota's proposal.
Earlier this month Toyota raised its price for the forklift maker from 18,800 yen to the current 20,600 yen, resolving a months-long standoff with activist investor Elliott Investment Management. The offer period was scheduled to expire at 3:30 p.m. Tokyo time on Monday.
Toyota's initial approach last year started at 16,300 yen per share before the company increased the offer twice. The final 20,600 yen figure amounts to a 26% premium over the original 16,300 yen proposal. Elliott, which had earlier rejected lower bids as insufficient, agreed to tender its shares after Toyota lifted the price to 20,600 yen, describing the revised level as an "improved outcome" for minority shareholders.
The proposed deal has garnered attention as a gauge of Japan's recent corporate governance reforms and as part of scrutiny surrounding cross-shareholdings within the country's large business groups. For the acquisition to proceed, the tender must receive acceptance from 42.01% of shareholders categorized as minority owners - a figure that does not count Toyota Motor's existing 24.66% stake in Toyota Industries.
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At this stage, market participants and observers are awaiting the formal tally of acceptances from minority shareholders to determine whether Toyota's tender reaches the necessary threshold.