Singapore: Small shareholders flex muscles, demand higher premium on take-private deals

Singapore: Small shareholders flex muscles, demand higher premium on take-private deals

People are reflected on an electronic board displaying a graph showing the movement of Nikkei share average outside a brokerage in Tokyo

Singapore managements are increasingly being forced to pay up for taking their companies private as minority investors demand bigger premiums to the depressed market valuations of targets, underscoring a growing trend of shareholder activism in Asia.

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