Company"), a leading e-commerce and financial services business process outsourcing ("
BPO") service provider in China, today announced that it has entered into a definitive Agreement and Plan of Merger (the "
Merger Agreement") with Taiying Group Ltd. ("
Parent") and Taiying International Inc. ("
Merger Sub"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Parent.
Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Parent will acquire the Company for a cash consideration equal to US$6.50 per share of the Company (each, a "
Share"). This amount represents a premium of 37.7% over the Company's closing price of US$4.72 per Share on November 27, 2020, the last trading day prior to November 30, 2020, the date that the Company announced it had received a "going-private" proposal, and a premium of 37.8% to the volume-weighted average closing price of the Company's Shares during the 60 trading days prior to November 30, 2020. This amount also represents an increase of approximately 21.0% over the US$5.37 per Share initially offered by the buyer group in their initial "going-private" proposal on November 27, 2020.