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cyril

this is what we wanted to hear, and one must assume it is actually correct this time!


LONDON, Nov 11 (Reuters) - ONGC Videsh, the overseas arm of India's ONGC, said all conditions for its $2.6 billion bid for Imperial Energy had been met, effectively sealing a deal investors feared might be scuppered by falling oil prices.

ONGC Videsh said in a statement that the Russian authorities had provided the last of the necessary regulatory approvals, and a spokesman said the Indian company would send offer documents to Imperial shareholders within 28 days.

i am sure i am correct to say that the offer is 12.50 cash, but i am sure someone will swiftly correct me if that is not so.

the docs will apparently be posted within 28 days, so i take it that completion will be in no more than say 90 days.

sp is currently still only 11.60 which would seem to leave a rock solid free ride of 90p which is about 8% ...... pretty good return if you ask me

seems some are cashing in their chips ..... fine by me ..... i'll wait a while longer and then buy some more

Looking good,...in a way I'll be sorry to see this disappear off the radar screens....in time this would have been above 20 !.

rf, remember the t/o price of 12.50 = 19.00 to those of us who took up all of the rights issue at 6.00. Like you I'll be sorry to see it go, but reallistically would we ever have got anything like full value given the politics involved.

Russia.....tricky place to do any business.....I'm in Petroneft (PTR)(Aim)....(small future producer)....I have high hopes for that little company !.

You never know : IEC might do "a BUR (Burren Energy )" with the sp going past the takeover price before slipping back...!.

four and a half years of holding IEC is long enough invested in Russia for me !
Good luck with PTR

was very happy to buy another slice at 1137 ..... surely better, and even arguably safer than money in a BS!

Yeah i agree, has been a fun ride, but im out as from today, i left 10% on table. Id like to think the 12.50 is the take out price, but with a 2 mth wait until completion who knows what might happen.

likely to be a far better and safer bet than most places in the market!
shall contemplate banking everything at 1175 but may hold until the end, not least because the downside is surely very limited, though saying that is likely to put on a vicious hex!

Worth watching this as anything +/- 1000p has got to be worth buying, imo.

hope we don't see it quite that low again or i may really start to get twitchy!

looking at the institutional movements is quite interesting, and unless i am much mistaken, on balance they are adding ..... some are selling, but that may well be forced to help their liquidity.

i think the general nervousness relates to whether or not the indians will try to reduce the price at the last minute, though both sides deny that is even being considered ..... there will also be some forced closing for margin or where stops have been hit.

once the t/o papers go out in early december - or at least that is what is supposed to happen - then i guess a further surge is on the cards

Trouble is that completion of the deal is so far away that interest will probably wane, along with the sp.

not really ..... early/mid january is seemingly the target, and that is not far off

1064p to buy. Starting to look tempting again!

would be sorely tempted myself if i did not have enough already and also do not wish to throw additional funds into the market

this is what has spooked IEC a bit

DEALTALK-Crisis puts brakes on India's outbound M&A

but if you read a bit further, the article says .....

ONGC, which has about $15.5 billion in reserves, has agreed a $2.6 billion takeover of Imperial Energy , and is scouting for more such deals.
Deals involving companies with strong balance sheets still look promising," said Ranjit Lakhanpal, managing director of investment banking for JP Morgan in India.


so my money is still very firmly on the deal going through, and if i had more spare funds as was not already heavily exposed, would be tempted to buy a few more

PRE CONDITIONAL OFFER FOR IMPERIAL

"On 26 August 2008, the boards of Imperial and ONGC Videsh Limited ('OVL') announced that they had reached agreement on the terms of a recommended pre-conditional cash offer, to be made by Jarpeno Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of OVL, for the entire issued and to be issued ordinary share capital of Imperial Energy (the 'Share Offer') at a price of 1,250p per share

All the pre-conditions to the Share Offer have now been satisfied (19/11/08)

The formal offer document and acceptance forms are to be posted to Imperial shareholders by 9 December

The Share Offer of 1,250p per share, together with the Convertible Bond Offer (as defined in the announcement dated 26 August 2008), values the entire issued and to be issued share capital at approximately 1.4 billion (approximately $2.1 billion at current exchange rates)"

while all is carnage, IEC remains pretty calm and, if you have some spare funds, i still say this is a damn good haven with still an upside of 1.25 or even 1.70 if you want to hang on to the end in +/-january