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Qataris win Canary Wharf takeover battle

28 Jan 15 London’s Canary Wharf district is set to be taken over by the rulers of Qatar after winning the support of shareholders for its £2.6bn offer.

Canary Wharf
Canary Wharf

Songbird Estates, the majority owner of the Canary Wharf Estate, said that the offer from the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), backed by Canadian investment firm Brookfield, undervalued the asset but conceded that the battle was now lost.

Canary Wharf Group is majority owned by Songbird Estates; Brookfield owns 22% of Canary Wharf. QIA owns 29% of Songbird. Songbird’s thee other largest shareholders, Glick, China Investment Corp and Morgan Stanley Investment Management, have accepted QIA’s offer, giving it 85.66% of the shares in total.

The board of Songbird Estate had been trying to solicit rival offers to push the price up, but none came.

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