Manipal Health again sweetens offer for Fortis Healthcare

Press Trust of India  |  New Delhi 

Health Enterprises has revised its offer for Healthcare again, raising the value to Rs 6,322 crore, according to a regulatory filing.

The new offer from Health Enterprises Pvt Ltd (MHEPL) also proposes that Education and will arrange financial assistance of up to Rs 750 crore either by way of debt financing or by way of guarantees, comfort letters to lenders of FHL.

This is the second time Manipal/TPG-led consortium has revised its offer for Healthcare Ltd (FHL).

"MHEPL proposes to offer a premium of Rs 1,319 crore to the FHL shareholders over and above the FHL Hospital's Business' equity valuation of Rs 5,003 crore, as determined by the independent valuer....," MHEPL said in a letter to the FHL board.

This would result in an equity value of Rs 6,322 crore being attributed to Business for purposes of computing the share entitlement ratio for the purposes of demerger, it added.

The earlier revised offer of April 10 valued hospital business at Rs 6,061 crore.

The letter also mentions that the new revised offer provides a road map for the exit of PE investors from SRL.

As per the offer, Health would purchase 5 per cent of SRL's paid up share capital on a fully diluted basis from FHL for the same price per share as being paid for the stake.

"This is to ensure that FHL is able to monetise a portion of its stake in SRL towards repayment of its overdue loans while retaining a majority stake in SRL," the letter said.

On April 10, the Manipal/consortium had raised their offer for to Rs 155 per share by valuing the hospital business higher at Rs 6,061 crore from Rs 5,003 crore in its initial offer on March 27.

Yesterday KKR-backed Radiant Life Care also made a revised bid for Healthcare Ltd (FHL) with a binding offer to acquire its for an enterprise value of Rs 1,200 crore.

Already Malaysian IHH Healthcare has revised its proposal and made a binding offer to immediately infuse Rs 650 crore in the Indian firm as part of an overall proposal to invest Rs 4,000 crore.

FHL had also received an unsolicited non-binding expression of interest from Fosun Health Holdings, an arm of Fosun International, with a proposal of primary infusion at a price up to Rs 156 per share up to a total investment of USD 350 million (over Rs 2,295 crore).

FHL stock was trading 0.49 per cent down at Rs 150.80 in the afternoon on BSE.

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First Published: Wed, April 25 2018. 14:35 IST