{"id":219536,"date":"2021-04-05T20:25:45","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tribune-board-will-consider-680m-bid-after-oking-lower-offer\/"},"modified":"2021-04-05T20:25:45","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:25:45","slug":"tribune-board-will-consider-680m-bid-after-oking-lower-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tribune-board-will-consider-680m-bid-after-oking-lower-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tribune board will consider $680M bid after OK’ing lower offer"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Tribune board will consider $680M bid after OK’ing lower offer<\/strong>”
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Efforts to buy the publisher of the New York Daily News<\/a> and the Chicago Tribune are heating up yet again. <\/p>\n

On Monday, Tribune Publishing said the special committee advising its board on a sale has given the thumbs up for the company to start reviewing a $680 million buyout offer by hotel magnate Stewart Bainum and Swiss-born investor Hansjorg Wyss. <\/p>\n

The Bainum\/Wyss offer, made through their newly formed Newslight joint venture, offers to pay Tribune shareholders $18.50 a share in cash \u2014 rivaling a $17.25-per-share cash offer by hedge fund Alden Global Capital. <\/p>\n

The latter offer values Tribune at $630 million and was app<\/a>roved by the board in February. <\/p>\n

But the publishing giant, which also owns the Orlando Sentinel and the Hartford-Courant, said in its Monday press release the special committee has determined that Newslight\u2019s offer can reasonably be expected to lead to a superior proposal. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe acquisition proposal from Newslight is fully financed by equity commitments from Mr. Bainum and Mr. Wyss, and remains subject to certain conditions, including completion of due diligence and negotiation of definitive documentation,\u201d Tribune said Monday, confirming a Sunday report by the Wall Street Journal<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The approval paves the way for Tribune to start conducting its due diligence on Newslight\u2019s offer and to see if they to reach a definitive purchase agreement. <\/p>\n

The progress made by the billionaire duo is expected to be welcome news to Tribune staffers given Alden\u2019s reputation for brutal cost-cutting at newspapers it controls through its Media<\/a> News Group. <\/p>\n

Still, the battle isn\u2019t over yet. The special committee\u2019s move doesn\u2019t necessarily mean Tribune will nix its existing merger agreement with Alden. Alden, a large Tribune shareholder with two seats on Tribune\u2019s board, could always seek to top the rival offer. <\/p>\n

Alden, which already owns 31.6 percent of Tribune purchased at an average price of $12.38 over the course of the past 18 months, could also choose to walk away. That decision would net it about $100 million for its stake, plus $20 million from the bust-up fee agreed to by Tribune. <\/p>\n

The special committee, which consists of the three independent non-Alden aligned directors on the Tribune board \u201cwill carefully consider the outcome of its discussions with Newslight and its principals in order to determine the course of action that is in the best interest of Tribune and its stockholders, subject to the terms of the Alden Merger Agreement,\u201d the company.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere can be no assurance that the discussions with Newslight and its principals will result in a binding proposal,\u201d Tribune noted Monday. <\/p>\n

If Newslight ends up toppling Alden\u2019s offer, Bainum and Wyss are then expected to start entertaining offers to sell off some of Tribune\u2019s assets. <\/p>\n

Bainum \u2014 better known as the chairman of Choice Hotels International, which owns Quality Inn and Comfort Inn chains \u2014 has said he is interested in keeping the Baltimore Sun, the Capitol Gazette and other small Maryland papers to run as a not-for-profit. Wyss, founder of a medical-device maker later bought by Johnson & Johnson, has said he\u2019s interested in the Chicago Tribune. <\/p>\n

Mason Slaine, the third largest shareholder at Tribune with a 3.4 percent stake, confirmed he would be interested in buying the Orlando Sentinel and the South Florida Sun Sentinel from Bainum and Wyss, if they succeed with their proposal. <\/p>\n

Another suitor, Craig Mateer, a former owner of Bags Inc., has stepped forward to say he, too, is interested in buying only the Orlando Sentinel, according to a report by that paper. <\/p>\n

And Gary Lutin, a New York investor who heads the Shareholder Forum, has been identified as a potential buyer of the Allentown Morning Call. He is reportedly heading a group that is willing to pay $30 million to $40 million. <\/p>\n

Sources close to the Bainum\/Wyss team say that at least one other suitor has stepped forward to express interest in the Lehigh Valley paper. <\/p>\n

There is also a group of local investors discussing a bid for the Hartford Courant, a source close to the process told The Post. The potential investors were planning to huddle Monday to decide their course of action, the source said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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