Saturday, February 28, 2009

Singapore left with second largest Citi stake

Financial Times, 27 Feb 2009, John Burton

The Government of Singapore Investment Corp on Friday said it would become the second-largest investor in Citigroup with an 11.1 per cent stake after it agreed to convert its preferred shares into common shares.

Under a deal co-ordinated with Citi’s agreement with the US government, GIC will give up a 7 per cent annual dividend provided by the perpetual convertible notes it acquired from Citi in January 2008 for $6.88bn.

GIC will exchange its preferred shares for 2.1bn common shares at a price of $3.25 a share against a conversion price of $26.35 under the original terms of the 2008 investment.

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