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Qatar Set to Buy London's Canary Wharf District
2015-02-01
When the price of oil is down, you gotta find another way to finance that princely lifestyle (and jihad, of course).
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...an emirate on the east coast of the Arabian Peninsula. It sits on some really productive gas and oil deposits, which produces the highest per capita income in the world. They piss it all away on religion, financing the Moslem Brotherhood and several al-Qaeda affiliates...
 looked to have won a drawn-out bid to buy London's Canary Wharf on Wednesday after the owner of the landmark office quarter said its main shareholders favored a sale.

The board of Songbird, which controls 69 percent of Canary Wharf Group, appeared to concede defeat despite stressing that the offer worth £2.6 billion ($4.0 billion, 3.5 billion euros) remained undervalued.

"It is now the board's understanding that each of the major shareholders intends to accept the offer," Songbird said in a statement.

It added however that "the board... continues to believe that the offer does not reflect the full value of the business, its unique operating platform and its prospects".

Sovereign wealth fund Qatar Investment Authority (QIA), in partnership with U.S. group Brookfield Property Partners, had in December proposed an improved "final offer" for Songbird.

The cash bid, pitched at 350 pence per share, compared with a previous 295-pence-per-share or £2.2-billion offer that was rejected last November.

QIA, which owns Harrods department store and the Shard skyscraper in London, already has a 28.6-percent stake in Songbird.

Brookfield owns 22 percent of Canary Wharf Group.

The former Docklands area of London where Canary Wharf is located was re-developed in the 1980s after having fallen into disrepair when the city's status as a trading hub declined. The area is now a magnet for huge building projects.

QIA owns also significant stakes in British supermarket chain Sainsbury's and the London Stock Exchange, as well as half of the Olympic Village apartments in the capital's Stratford district.
Posted by:trailing wife

#1  taking lessons via the Johnny Cash "One Piece at a Time" acquisition of a major city chapter.
Posted by: USN, Ret.   2015-02-01 11:21