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DBM Global Incorporated

(f/k/a Schuff International Inc.)

 
 

Support of Minority Shareholder Interests

The Shareholder Forum had offered to support Appraised Value Rights ("AVR") of DBM (f/k/a Schuff International) minority shareholders in 2014 following a $31.50 per share tender offer by the company's controlling shareholder, HC2 Holdings, Inc., with the stated intent to proceed with a short-form merger "as soon as practicable.”

HC2 acquired DBM shares in the 2014 tender offer and other purchases bringing its total holdings to 92% of outstanding DBM shares, but has not proceeded with a merger. The Forum has continued to support the minority shareholder interests of its AVR participants in this context.

 
     

 

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Professional fund manager view of investor interests in buyout

 

For an earlier article and references to SEC reports, see

 

Source: FINalternatives, November 4, 2014 article

Falcone Set To Buy Out Steel Co. Shareholders

Nov 4 2014 | 4:12am ET

Philip Falcone’s bid to buy out minority shareholders of Schuff International may have been controversial, but it has proven successful.

Falcone’s HC2 Holdings vehicle said yesterday that it had boosted its stake in the steel-fabricator over 90%, allowing him to force its remaining shareholders to sell their shares to him.

“We intend to executive a short-form merger as soon as practicable,” HC2 said. “Such a short-form merger will increase our ownership of Schuff shares to 100%.”

HC2 paid Schuff’s controlling family $31.50 per share for a 65% stake in the company in May. Share prices subsequently rose for the profitable business, but HC2’s price did not. Some accused Falcone of abusing lax disclosure rules for over-the-counter shares in his tender offer for the company.

Some Schuff shareholders plan to ask a court to value their shares, alleging that HC2 paid as much as $34 per share to get its stake above 90%.

 

 

 

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