Petra Diamonds buys Crown Diamonds in reverse takeover
AFX
LONDON (AFX) - Petra Diamonds Ltd, an AIM quoted diamond mining company, has conditionally agreed to merge with Crown Diamonds NL, buying the entire issued equity of Crown.
The all share transaction, which is subject to regulatory and shareholder approval, values Crown at 35.3 mln stg and Petra will as a result have a dual listing in Australia and London.
Petra will issue 37.2 mln new shares to Crown with the latters shareholders to get one Petra share for every 8 Crown shares.
Because the merger represents a reverse takeover, Petra has been suspended from trading on the AIM.
Johan Dippenaar is to be appointed chief executive of teh emrged group.
Details of proposed merger