Lithium Americas Offers $400M for Millennial Lithium
Lithium Americas Offers $400M for Millennial Lithium
By Adriano Marchese
阿德里亞諾·馬爾切斯(Adriano Marchese)
Lithium Americas Corp. said Monday that it has made an offer for around US$400 million to acquire Millennial Lithium Corp. which is currently being pursued by China-based Contemporary Amperex Technology Co.
美國鋰公司週一説，它已經提出以4億美元左右的價格收購千禧年鋰公司，目前中國當代安培科技有限公司正在收購該公司。
Under the terms of the offer, the Canadian lithium project developer said each Millennial shareholder will receive 4.70 Canadian dollars, around US$3.79, a share payable in its own shares and C$0.001 in cash per share.
根據要約條款，這家加拿大鋰項目開發商表示，千禧一代股東將獲得4.7加元(約合3.79美元)，每股以自己的股票支付，每股0.001加元的現金。
The company noted that based on the its closing price on Oct. 29, Millennial shareholders would own around 9.9% of Lithium Americas.
該公司指出，根據10月29日的收盤價，千禧一代股東將持有Lithium America約9.9%的股份。
"As we bring Caucharí-Olaroz into production over the next year and continue to advance our Stage 2 expansion planning, the addition of this highly complementary lithium brine resource further enhances our long-term growth strategy in Argentina and leverages our technical and development expertise," President and Chief Executive Jonathan Evans said.
總裁兼首席執行官喬納森·埃文斯(Jonathan Evans)説：“隨着我們明年將Caucharí-Olaroz投入生產，並繼續推進我們的第二階段擴張計劃，這種高度互補的鋰鹽水資源的加入進一步加強了我們在阿根廷的長期增長戰略，並利用了我們的技術和開發專業知識。”
The board of Millennial said it has unanimously determined that this offer constitutes a superior proposal compared with its agreement with Contemporary Amperex Technology.
千禧公司董事會表示，他們一致認為，與與當代安培科技公司的協議相比，這一報價構成了一個更好的提議。
In late September, Tesla Inc. supplier CATL said it would acquire Millennial Lithium Corp. in an all-cash deal worth C$377 million.
9月下旬，特斯拉(Tesla Inc.)供應商CATL表示，將以3.77億加元全現金收購千禧年鋰公司(Millyear Lithium Corp.)。
Lithium Americas said the offer also provides for a reimbursement to Millennial for the termination fee of US$20 million payable to CATL if the CATL agreement is terminated
鋰美洲公司表示，如果CATL協議終止，該要約還規定向千禧年償還支付給CATL的2000萬美元終止費
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