July 2020
Metlifecare investor withdraws chairman spill request
The Metlifecare requisition notice that never officially existed is no more.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
Metlifecare to enter revised scheme with EQT: sources
Metlifecare is all set to enter a revised takeover scheme agreement with its suitor EQT Infrastructure.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
UBS tips higher offer for Metlifecare
Dual-listed retirement village owner Metlifecare has found a friend at an important time.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
Metlifecare asks investor to withdraw chairman spill request
Dual-listed retirement village owner Metlifecare has got its racquet to hedge fund investor Maso Capital's first serve.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
Metlifecare investor ramps up pressure on chairman, requests spill
The hedge funds out for Metlifecare chairman Kim Ellis' head haven't eased the pressure just yet.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
EQT lobs $NZ1.28b takeover offer at Metlifecare
This should quieten down agitating hedge fund shareholders.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
Engage or face the chop: hedge funds to Metlifecare chairman
Metlifecare's chairman Kim Ellis has until close of business Friday to re-engage with suitor EQT or hedge fund investors will call a vote for him to step down.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
June 2020
Metlifecare rejects revised EQT takeover offer
Private equity investor EQT Infrastructure has been in revised bid discussions with dual-listed retirement village owner Metlifecare.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
May 2020
- Opinion
- Mergers & acquisitions
COVID-19 exposes M&A risks
The pandemic might be a material adverse change that entitles a bidder to walk away from a scheme of arrangement deal, but it depends on the facts.
- Rodd Levy
April 2020
Deal off: EQT Infrastructure pulls $1.46b aged care takeover
EQT triggers material adverse change clause at dual-listed retirement village owner Metlifecare.
- Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Tim Boyd
March 2017
Aged care play Oceania Healthcare's pitch to fundies
Meet the aged care roll-out story setting course for the listed market.
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- Edited by Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Joyce Moullakis
March 2014
Rising costs and car makers’ woes a headache for life insurers
MetLife, the fourth biggest provider of group life insurance in Australia, could be forgiven getting a little nervous. The US company provides cover to Statewide Super, which describes itself as the leading industry superannuation fund in South Australia and the Northern Territory, with 150,000 members.
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- Sally Patten