American corporation Western Digital was in a difficult situation : it recently spent a lot of money on the purchase of SanDisk assets, and around the sale of Toshiba's core assets, a scandal is born. WDC believes that it has a priority right to bid, since SanDisk had a joint venture with Toshiba, which is just releasing NAND-type memory. However, free funds from WDC are no more than $ 7 billion, and some competitors in the auctions for Toshiba assets are ready to offer twenty billion more. From despair, WDC is trying to block the sale of Toshiba assets through the court, difficulties arise in the operation of the joint venture in Japan.
As the edition of The Japan Times notes, the US manufacturer of hard drives and solid-state drives is ready to raise rates in the fight for Toshiba's core assets up to $ 17.8 billion, but the scheme for financing the deal does not suit the seller. WDC is ready to provide three-quarters the amount with convertible preferred shares, which can be turned into ordinary shares only after a few years. Another quarter of this amount should be provided by partners in the transaction in the face of Japanese investors (INCJ and DBJ) with state participation.
Even the participation of Japanese investment structures, as the source notes, will not allow to avoid the expectation of approval from the antimonopoly authorities, which risks delay. For Toshiba, it is important not only the amount earned from the sale of assets, but also the timing of money receipt . If it does not cover the losses from the activities of the North American subsidiary of the energy company by March next year, it may be excluded from the quotation list of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. WDC is acting aggressively, threatening to block out competitive deals by legal means, and at the same time not offering "live money" in sufficient quantities that Toshiba badly needs.
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