海航收購奧地利資管公司獲當地監管機構放行大綱
Austria’s financial regulator has paved the way for HNA Group’s takeover of an Austrian asset manager, just days after New Zealand’s overseas investment watchdog blocked a similar deal because of the Chinese company’s opaque ownership.
C-Quadrat – the Austrian firm through which HNA bought a stake in Deutsche Bank – said the Vienna’s Financial Market Authority had “no objections” to the Hainan-based company’s planned majority takeover.
奧地利公司C-Quadrat表示，奧地利金融市場監管局(FMA)“不反對”總部位於海南的海航收購C-Quadrat多數股份的計劃。海航曾通過C-Quadrat購入德意志銀行(Deutsche Bank)的股份。“Since the releases of the British Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Austrian Financial Market Authority (FMA) are now available, the transaction is only subject to clearance from the Central Bank of Armenia (CBA),” the company, which has a market cap of 226.88m, said in a filing.
“在英國金融市場行爲監管局(FCA)和奧地利金融市場監管局放行之後，現在這筆交易只需要再獲得亞美尼亞央行(CBA)的批准，”市值2.2688億歐元的C-Quadrat在一份文件中表示。
If the additional regulatory hurdle is cleared, HNA will take a 74.8 per cent holding in a third company through London-based Cubic, and Cubic would hold a more than 98 per cent interest in C-Quadrat.
如果成功掃除額外的監管障礙，海航將持有倫敦的第三方公司Cubic的74.8%的股份，而Cubic將持有C-Quadrat逾98%的股份。The announcement came just after New Zealand’s Overseas Investment Office on Thursday declined HNA’s proposed NZ$660m ($462m) acquisition of UDC Finance, a unit of ANZ Bank, because it could not verify who controlled the airlines-to-finance group.
就在此消息公佈前，新西蘭海外投資辦公室(Overseas Investment Office)在本週四拒絕了海航以6.6億新西蘭元（合4.62億美元）收購澳新銀行(ANZ Bank)旗下UDC Finance的計劃，理由是無法覈實這家業務涵蓋了航空、金融的集團背後的實際控制者。HNA has grabbed global attention with a buying spree that has seen it snap up multibillion-dollar stakes in Deutsche and Hilton Worldwide, among many other groups. However, questions over its shareholding structure and ultimate owners have dogged the company.
海航的收購狂潮吸引了全球目光，這家公司已搶購了德意志銀行(Deutsche Bank)和希爾頓全球(Hilton Worldwide)數十億美元的股份，以及其他多個集團。然而，圍繞其股權結構和最終所有人的問題一直困擾着這家公司。Earlier in December, a US-based software company filed a complaint with the Supreme Court of the State of New York against HNA over discrepancies among reports of its ownership structure. And in September, Switzerland’s takeover body demanded that HNA clarify its ownership structure after its SFr1.4bn ($1.4bn) buyout of air services company Gategroup.
12月初，一家美國軟件公司在紐約州最高法院對海航提起訴訟，指控其所有權結構報告存在不一致。9月份，瑞士併購委員會要求海航澄清其所有權結構，此前海航以14億瑞士法郎（合14億美元）收購了航空服務公司佳美集團(Gategroup)。HNA did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on Friday.
海航沒有立即迴應週五的置評請求。
