Activist Funds Succeed in Blocking Singapore REIT Merger
- Quarz was against the deal, saying offer was below value
- Sabana, ESR tie-up would have total assets of $3 billion
Singapore.
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Activist funds Quarz Capital and Black Crane successfully blocked a proposed merger that would have created Singapore’s fifth-largest real estate investment trust.
The proposed tie-up between ESR-REIT and Sabana Shari’ah Compliant Industrial REIT was rejected by Sabana’s shareholders, quashing a deal that would have given the enlarged entity combined assets of about S$4.1 billion ($3 billion).