Hilton Worldwide Holdings is announcing that 60 million shares are expected to be sold at a price of $73 per share.
The shares are being sold by the financially strained major shareholder HNA Tourism Group.
The offer is expected to be completed on 13 April. Previously, it was stated that HNA wanted to sell a total of just over 63 million shares. In addition to the 60 million now on offer, there is an option for 30 days to buy an additional 6 million shares. If that option is exercised, it would therefore be a deal worth around $4.8 billion.
The placement of the shares is being handled by a number of investment banks, including Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Hilton closed at $75.01 on Tuesday.
It has been speculated for some time that HNA will sell its stake. The company is financially strained, and the Chinese government has come down hard on the country's conglomerates. HNA has also made a series of spectacular acquisitions in recent years. The conglomerate owns 26.1 percent of Hilton Worldwide, and the shares were bought a year and a half ago for approximately 6.5 billion dollars.
Source: finwire
