Tata Motors’ commercial-vehicle business has secured European Central Bank approval for its €3.8-billion takeover offer for Iveco Group, with Consob’s review of the offer document now the next step.
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Tata Motors’ commercial-vehicle business on Tuesday secured European Central Bank approval for its €3.8-billion, or about ₹40,000-crore, takeover offer for Iveco Group, completing the prior sector-regulatory clearances required for the transaction and moving the Indian truck maker closer to opening its offer to Iveco shareholders.
The company, in a regulatory filing informing the exchanges, said TML CV Holdings BV, the entity making the offer, had confirmed that “all prior authorisations required by the sector regulatory framework relating to the Voluntary Totalitarian Tender Offer for all the common shares of Iveco Group N.V., have been obtained.”
The ECB authorised Tata’s proposed indirect acquisition of qualifying holdings in IC Financial Services SA and CNH Industrial Capital Europe SAS, two Iveco-linked specialised credit institutions authorised in France.
The clearance keeps the transaction broadly aligned with the timetable Tata had indicated to investors. Management had expected the remaining sector-specific financial approvals, including the ECB clearance, around the end of August as it worked towards taking the tender offer to Iveco shareholders.
Tuesday’s approval caps a financial-regulatory process spanning three authorities. Britain’s Financial Conduct Authority approved the change of control of Iveco Retail Ltd and IC Financial Services UK Ltd on January 5.
The Bank of Spain followed on June 24, issuing its non-opposition to Tata’s acquisition of an indirect qualifying holding in Transolver Finance.
The approvals were required because the proposed acquisition includes regulated financing businesses that support vehicle customers and dealers, making the change in ownership subject to separate financial-sector scrutiny.
The acquisition, however, is not complete. Italy’s securities market regulator, Consob, is reviewing the offer document.
“Therefore, the offer document will be published upon completion of the review by Consob,” Tata’s announcement said.
Once published, the offer can move to the tender stage, when Iveco shareholders decide whether to sell their shares. It covers all issued common shares of Iveco Group and will be launched in Italy and extended to eligible shareholders in the US.
The offer is being promoted by TML CV Holdings Pte Ltd through wholly owned TML CV Holdings BV, the formal bidder for Iveco’s common shares.
The acquisition would substantially expand Tata Motors’ commercial-vehicle footprint by combining its India-led truck and bus operations with Iveco’s businesses across major international markets, giving Tata a significantly larger presence in Europe and other developed commercial-vehicle markets.
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