Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Energy says it has secured the support of a list of Warrego shareholders for its 28¢-a-share cash bid for the junior gas play. Hancock lodged its fourth supplementary bidder’s statement on Wednesday, which outlined a list of supportive Warrego investors.
Gina Rinehart’s Hancock Energy has warned investors in its takeover target Warrego Energy that they face management and share price risks if they choose to accept a rival bid from Strike Energy. Hancock said taking up Strike’s offer would open shareholders up to risks around potential future funding challenges which “are likely to include substantial funding that is not in place for key developments and onerous debt arrangements’’.
Gina Rinehart has hit back in the takeover battle for Warrego Energy and cast doubt on rival Strike Energy’s capacity to fund its onshore gas ambitions in the Perth Basin. Mrs Rinehart’s Hancock Energy maintains its all-cash 28¢ per share takeover offer for Warrego is superior to a revised bid lobbed by Strike on MondayHancock, which has pointed to a near $18 billion cash war chest to fund a Warrego takeover, other acquisitions and project developments, warned Strike would need to go deep into debt under its “high risk” Perth Basin plans.
LONG live the King. If Kyle Chalmers ever thinks about quitting swimming early again, then the whole of Australia needs to beg him to stay. The Dolphins have produced a stack of legendary male freestyle sprinters over the years, but Chalmers deserves to be listed at the very top now. Stop the fight. There is just no argument any more.
18 December 2022. Evening update.
