NEW YORK - be rejected twice by the parent company of the New York Stock Exchange, Nasdaq and IntercontinentalExchange have intensified their struggle for the top U.S. stock market.
Monday, the Nasdaq OMX Group Inc. and IntercontinentalExchange Inc. said that they take their bid not sought for the New York Stock Exchange directly to shareholders. They are from an exchange offer to jointly acquire all the outstanding shares of NYSE Euronext for $ 11 billion.
The parent company of NYSE rejected twice of the joint bid of the Nasdaq and the ice by saying: it is committed to its merger previously agreed to 10 billion dollars with the operator Deutsche Boerse German exchange, despite the lower price. For each share of NYSE, Nasdaq and ice are offering $14.24 cash, 0.4069 shares Nasdaq and 0.1436 actions ordinary ICE
Expected in large part the struggle for the shareholders. NASDAQ CEO Robert Greifeld said recently analysts that the company plans to appeal directly to shareholders if NYSE pushed back the progress of the company.
"NYSE Euronext Board continually challenged our proposal seriously and refused to engage us in discussion despite the positive comments that we have received from their shareholders," Greifeld said Monday in a news release. "The start of this exchange offer should convince the NYSE Euronext Board of the seriousness of our intentions."
NYSE Euronext shareholders threw issues to senior management of the company at the annual meeting of last week. They expressed concern that the takeover attempt, which has a value of $ 1.4 billion more than Deutsche Boerse agreement, was not considered. Nasdaq officials said shareholders had appealed to them directly to discuss the bid. Then, they approved a proposal that gave them the right to call meetings special shareholder.
Jan-Michiel Hessels, Chairman of NYSE Euronext, said shareholders at the meeting that the Nasdaq bid was "full of unacceptable risk" and that it would not clear regulatory barriers since Nasdaq and the New York Stock Exchange are the two operators main stock market in the U.S. NYSE Euronext also operates exchanges and the derivatives of operations in Europe.
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