Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT) and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MNACT) merger to form Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust (MPACT)

Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT) and Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MNACT) announced a proposed merger to form a new REIT, Mapletree Pan Asia Commercial Trust (MPACT)

From The Edge article on the announcement:

The merger will be done via a trust scheme of arrangement with MCT acquiring all MNACT units in exchange for new units in MCT or a mix of cash and MCT units.

Unitholders of MNACT will receive a scheme consideration of $1.1949 for each unit held as at the record date, bringing the total scheme consideration to $4.215 billion.

The total consideration will comprise of no more than $417.3 million in cash, and the balance amount being in consideration units.

The consideration will be made up of either 0.5963 new MCT units at an issue price of $2.0039 per MNACT unit, or a combination of 0.5009 new units in MCT and 19.12 cents in cash.

The consideration implies a gross exchange ratio of 0.5963 times.

MNACT and MCT announced an update to their offer on 21st March. As per Reuters:

Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust's (MAPE.SI) unitholders will now have an option to receive consideration in cash from a proposed S$4.2 billion ($3.10 billion) merger with Mapletree Commercial Trust (MACT.SI), the Temasek-linked Singapore real estate investment trusts said on Monday.

Mapletree Commercial Trust (MCT) had announced plans in December to buy Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust (MNACT), seeking to create the seventh largest real estate investment trust (REIT) in Asia with an expected market value of about S$10.5 billion.

REIT materials on the merger:

MNACT's page on the merger
Joint Announcement - Revision of the Trust Scheme
Joint Presentation - Revision of Trust Scheme and Inclusion of Alternative Cash-Only Consideration
MNACT Presentation - Revision of Trust Scheme and Inclusion of Alternative Cash-Only Consideration
Responses to Frequently Asked Questions

MCT's page on the merger
Joint Announcement - Revision of the Trust Scheme
Joint Presentation - Revision of Trust Scheme and Inclusion of Alternative Cash-Only Consideration
MCT Offers Cash-Only Consideration Alternative to MNACT Unitholders with Full Backing from Mapletree of up to S$2.2 Billion for MCT’s Preferential Offering
Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
Chapter 9/10 - Revision of the terms of the Proposed Merger with Mapletree North Asia Commercial Trust and the Proposed Preferential Offering
MCT Presentation - Revision of Trust Scheme and Inclusion of Alternative Cash-Only Consideration

Important Dates (updated):

Bloggers' posts on the merger

1) Investmentmoats
2) Financial Horse

3) The Singaporean Investor

4) Dollars and Sense

5) Investment Income for Life

6) Dividend Titan

7) Dr Wealth

8) Compounding DividendxDividend

9) Just a Singaporean Son

10) Financial Horse follow up post on 8 Jan 2022

11) Donuts Farm

12) Live Rich Life Free

13) My Sweet Retirement

14) The Smart Investor

15) The Bedokian

16) Reit-tirement

17) Financial Horse's view on the revised terms

News Outlets

1) Shentonwire Letter to the Editor 3 Jan 2022

2) The Business Times Hock Lock Siew commentary

3) The Edge article 31 Dec 2021

4) The Business Times opinion on 10th Jan 2022

Analysts

1) Shentonwire - Daiwa's view as of 4 Jan 2022

2) Prosperus commentary

3) Shentonwire - Maybank's view as of 3 Jan 2022

4) Shentonwire - Quiditty Advisors' view as of 3 Jan 2022

5) Shentonwire - Moody's places MCT rating under review as of 5 Jan 2022

6) The Edge article summarizing analyst views as of 6 Jan 2022

7) The Edge commentary on the merger as of 6 Jan 2022

8) UOB Kay Hian view on merger as of 3 Jan 2022

YouTube

1) Commentary by Gabriel Yap

2) Commentary by The Astute Parent

3) Commentary from the Fifth Person

4) Never Count on Others

Quarz Capital

1) Quarz opposes Mapletree merger

2) Quarz has setup a website for unitholders opposed to the merger

3) Open Letter by Quarz

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