Australia's Namoi Cotton resumes trade after ASX operational issues
Updates with ASX filing for resumption of trade in Namoi Cotton
Oct 1 (Reuters) -Trading has resumed in shares of Namoi Cotton NAM.AX after a brief suspension on Tuesday, which the Australian bourse operator attributed to operational issues.
Shares in Namoi Cotton jumped as much as 9.2% to A$0.775 in early trade, their highest levels since September 1999, following Louis Dreyfus Co's (LDC) decision to raise its buyout offer price and stake in the Australian cotton producer.
Shortly after the surge, the Australian bourse operator announced a pause in trading of the company's shares.
"All trades in securities of Namoi between 10:06 AM AEST (0006 GMT)and 10:12 AM AEST have been cancelled under the ASX Operating Rules due to an ASX operational issue," the operator said in a statement.
Dutch commodities trader LDC, one of the bidders for Namoi Cotton, raised its stake in the company to 47.7%, according to an exchange filing. The revised stake comes a day after LDC increased its offer price to A$0.68 from A$0.67 per Namoi share.
The new offer, which now values the target firm at A$140.7 million, still came in lower than Singapore's Olam Agri IPO-OLAA.SI bid of A$0.75 apiece.
Last month, Olam Agri raised its stake and increased its buyout offer for Namoi to trounce LDC's bid, valuing the cotton ginning firm at A$155.2 million.
The Australian competition regulator (ACCC) is yet to clear Olam Agri's offer even though it has agreed to divest certain local operations, while they cleared LDC's bid last month after the trader agreed to certain divestitures.
Namoi had backed Olam Agri's bid, switching from its earlier recommendation of LDC's offer and joining one of its top shareholders Samuel Terry Asset Management in supporting the Singaporean company's proposal.
Reporting by Ayushman Ojha and Shivangi Lahiri; Editing by Sherry Jacob-Phillips
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