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Maybank Bids $1.4 Billion for Singapore Broker Kim Eng

By Chan Tien Hin and Barry Porter - Jan 6, 2011 10:49 AM GMT+0700


Malayan Banking Bhd., Malaysia’s biggest lender by assets, offered to buy Singaporean brokerage Kim Eng Holdings Ltd. in a deal valued at S$1.79 billion ($1.4 billion), accelerating its expansion in Southeast Asia.
Maybank, as the Kuala Lumpur-based company is known, agreed to buy a 44.6 percent stake in Kim Eng from Yuanta Securities Asia Financial Services Ltd. and Kim Eng Chairman Ronald Anthony Ooi Thean Yat at S$3.10 a share, the companies said in separate statements today. That’s 15 percent above Kim Eng’s latest price.
“Maybank has been trying to create a stronger regional footprint, and this is a short-cut way to its ambitions,” said Lye Thim Loong, who helps manage about $500 million at Avenue Invest Bhd. in Kuala Lumpur. “It’s a good move.”
A takeover would give Maybank stock-broking operations in Singapore, Thailand, Indonesia, the Philippines and Vietnam. The deal would be the largest in the last 12 months in the Asian finance, broking and banking industry, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Maybank said it will be required to make an offer for the rest of Kim Eng. Mitsubishi UFJ Morgan Stanley Securities Co., which owns 29 percent of Kim Eng, hasn’t decided whether to sell its stake, spokesman Susumu Taroura said in an interview.
The takeover is a “great leap forward for us so early in the new year,” Maybank Chairman Megat Zaharuddin Megat Mohd Nor said in the statement. Kim Eng complements Maybank’s existing investment-banking and equities operations, he said.
Price-to-Book
Kim Eng rose 2.7 percent to S$2.70 yesterday in Singapore trading, taking gains in the past month to 47 percent. At S$3.10, the price represents a multiple of 1.91 times Kim Eng’s book value as of Sept. 30, Maybank said. Maybank and Kim Eng’s shares were suspended today pending the announcement. Kim Eng said Dec. 17 that it had been approached about a takeover, causing its shares *****rge.
In the last 12 months, there have been 83 finance and brokerage acquisitions in Asia, with an average premium at announcement of 1.38 percent, according data compiled by Bloomberg. The largest deal was the purchase of China Securities Co. in July 2010 for $1.08 billion by a Beijing state-owned asset management company, Bloomberg data show.
Nomura Singapore Ltd. and Maybank Investment Bank are advising Maybank on the offer.
Regional Acquisitions
Kim Eng, founded in 1972, has operations in 10 economies including Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand and the U.S. It is Singapore’s second-biggest securities company in terms of market trading value, according to its website.
Maybank has 1,750 branches and offices in 14 countries with about 40,000 staff and 18 million customers, according to the company’s website. The bank has an asset base of more than $100 billion, it said.
The company bought bank stakes in Indonesia, Pakistan and Vietnam in 2008, seeking growth overseas amid increased local competition. Deals included the $2.2 billion takeover of PT Bank Internasional Indonesia, the country’s sixth-largest bank at the time and Maybank’s biggest acquisition.
“Yuanta is adjusting its strategy to focus on Greater China and less on Southeast Asia and Maybank offered a good price,” said Chuang Yu-te, a spokesman for Yuanta Financial Holding Co., which control Yuanta Securities. “As access to China widens after the signing of Economic Framework Cooperation Agreement, we are shifting our resources to Greater China.”
CIMB Head Start
Kim Eng’s 2009 net income increased 25 percent to S$89.3 million, with revenue growing 13 percent to S$419.5 million. In the first nine months of 2010, the company’s profit slipped 31 percent to S$50.2 million, while sales were little changed at S$241.1 million.
In November, Kim Eng agreed to buy 70 percent of Interpac Securities Group, a brokerage unit of Malaysia’s Berjaya Corp. The business was valued at 142 million ringgit, Kim Eng said in a statement the time, without saying how much it paid for the stake.
CIMB Group Holdings Bhd., Maybank’s biggest local rival, got a head start in Singapore after buying the stock-broking business of G.K. Goh Holdings Ltd. in 2005. The deal gave it operations in Singapore, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, the U.K. and the U.S.
To contact the reporter on this story: Chan Tien Hin in Kuala Lumpur at [email protected] Barry Porter in Kuala Lumpur at [email protected].
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Philip Lagerkranser in Hong Kong at [email protected]

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