復星退出競購倫敦私人銀行 Fosun drops bid for BHF Kleinwort Benson

Fosun International, the Chinese conglomerate whose chairman was detained this month in connection with an unspecified investigation, announced it would withdraw its bid for BHF Kleinwort Benson, the London merchant bank.

中國企業集團復星國際(Fosun International)宣佈將取消收購倫敦私人銀行BHF Kleinwort Benson的計劃。復星董事長郭廣昌本月曾因牽涉到一起內容不詳的調查而被拘留。

Fosun, one of China’s most aggressively acquisitive private companies, said in a statement to the Hong Kong stock exchange on Sunday night that it was withdrawing its 5.10 per share takeover offer for the bank, made in July. Oddo & Cie, the French private bank, intervened late in November with an offer of 5.75 per share.

復星在週日晚間向香港證交所提交的一份聲明中表示，將撤回今年7月發出的以每股5.10歐元收購BHF Kleinwort Benson的要約。11月，法國私人銀行Oddo & Cie加入競購，報價每股5.75歐元。復星是收購意願最爲強烈的中國民營企業之一。

The four-day disappearance earlier this month of Guo Guangchang, Fosun chairman, has shaken overseas confidence in the company’s ability to provide access to the Chinese market. It is not clear whether Fosun will hold on to its 30 per cent stake in Kleinwort Benson or sell to Oddo. Fosun declined to comment.

本月早些時候，復星董事長郭廣昌曾失聯4天，這動搖了海外人士對該公司提供進入中國市場渠道的能力的信心。目前還不清楚，復星是將繼續持有其在BHF Kleinwort Benson的30%股權，還是會出售給Oddo。復星拒絕置評。

Mr Guo went incommunicado on December 10 and the company later said he was assisting with a judicial investigation. The most prominent private businessmen so far caught up in China’s anti-corruption and anti-graft drive, Mr Guo is now on an overseas trip that has so far taken him to New York. He is expected to attend a performance of Cirque du Soleil, the entertainment company in which Fosun owns a 25 per cent stake, in Montreal on Monday.

12月10日，郭廣昌失聯。復星隨後表示，他正協助一樁司法調查。郭廣昌是迄今捲入中國反腐運動的最知名民營企業家，他現在正遠赴紐約出差。預計他將於週一在蒙特利爾觀看娛樂公司太陽馬戲團(Cirque du Soleil)的一場演出，復星持有該公司25%股權。