Oi's capital increase may shrink Pharol's position from 27% to 6%
Flávio Nunes 19 March 2018 https://eco.pt/2018/03/19/...i-podera-diluir-posicao-da-pharol-ate-6/
Pharol's position after Oi's capital increase could be diluted by up to 6%, a source told ECO. In a more favorable scenario, the company owns 10% of the operator. Currently, it has more than 27%.
Luís Palha da Silva, Chief Executive Officer of Pharol. The position of the Portuguese company in Oi could be diluted up to 6%. But negotiations are still under way that may dictate a more favorable scenario.
Oi's capital increase moves forward under the terms currently defined, Pharol's majority interest in the Brazilian operator, excluding treasury shares, may be reduced to around 6% , ECO learned from a source associated with the process.
At best for the Portuguese quota, keeping everything constant, the share of Pharol would be diluted to about 10%. M is a scenario that is now distant : Oi has already revealed that the creditors chose to keep 71% of the company , a value a little below the maximum of 75% conversion established in the plan.
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Today, the company led by Luís Palha da Silva, who inherited these assets from Portugal Telecom's former holding , owns approximately 27.4% of Oi's common shares. It is Oi's largest shareholder through the subsidiary Bratel. But Oi faces a judicial recovery process in Brazil to avoid bankruptcy, which provides for the conversion of debt into shares (according to the will expressed by creditors) and the injection of more capital.
In advance, these operations, which aim to make Oi's continuity feasible, could raise the company's capital up to 33.73 billion reais, or 8.3 billion euros, diluting Pharol's position to close to 6% , source told ECO . This will be one of the reasons why the Portuguese company has been trying to stop the capital increase , until now without success.
Despite the figures advanced by the source, the ECO made the calculations based on public information of the shareholder structure of Oi, information disclosed by Pharol ?PHR 0.42% and a document submitted to the Brazilian market by Oi , with details on the conversion operations of debt in shares and capital injection.
The conclusion is that in the scenario most favorable to Pharol, the company would control 10.7% of Oi, keeping everything constant and not counting the preferred shares (which do not undergo changes in the capital increase and of which Pharol does not have) or purchase options. But, as explained, it is a scenario that should not materialize, given that preliminary results show that most lenders chose to convert debts into equity.
However, in the worst case scenarios, which should be the closest to reality, Pharol's current position in Oi should be diluted to 7.55%, according to ECO calculations, or less (as already indicated, source admitted that it could reach close to 6%). Despite this information, the ECO found that there are still ongoing negotiations that could dictate a more beneficial scenario for Luís Palha da Silva's company after Oi's capital increase.
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For calculations, the ECO took into account a value of 183,041,223 common shares held by Pharol, or 27.4%. And it considered that there are 668,033,661 ordinary shares of Oi. The final value of Pharol's position after capital increase always depends on the amount of capitalization of credits, that is to say, it is conditioned by the payment method that the creditors chose in the process of payment of debt .
This process, which was supposed to be completed in February, ended on March 8, as ECO reported . The preliminary result of the creditors' choice was revealed to the market by the end of Friday.
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