NCB, Samba enter legally binding merger agreement

11/10/2020 Argaam


National Commercial Bank (NCB) entered into a legally binding merger agreement with Samba Financial Group (Samba) today, Oct. 11, the lenders said in separate bourse statements.

 

The two banks have now agreed to take the necessary steps to implement a merger in accordance with Articles 191-193 of the Companies Law and Article 49(a)(1) of the Merger and Acquisition Regulations issued by the Capital Market Authority.

 

The merger is expected to be completed in Q2 2021.

 

Upon the completion of the merger, NCB will continue to exist while Samba will cease to exist and its shares will be cancelled. NCB will issue new shares to Samba shareholders.

 

Shareholders of Samba Group will acquire new shares in NCB, as per the exchange ratio of 0.739 shares in NCB for every Samba share.

 

New shares will be issued by increasing the paid-up capital of NCB from SAR 30 billion to SAR 44.78 billion. Accordingly, the number of issued shares will increase from 3 billion to 4.48 billion, representing an increase of 49.3%.

 

On June 25, NCB announced the signing of a framework agreement with Samba with regard to the potential merger.

 

Earlier in the day, the Saudi Stock Exchange (Tadawul) suspended trading on shares of NCB and Samba for one trading session.

 

Merger Highlights

Latest development

Signing of binding merger agreement

Merger method

Through transferring all of Samba’s assets and liabilities to NCB

Equity compensation

New shares for Samba shareholders

Exchange ratio

Samba shareholders will get 0.739 shares in NCB for every Samba share they own

New entity

National Commercial Bank

Samba after merger

Will cease to exist and shares will be cancelled

NCB capital before merger

SAR 30 bln

NCB capital after merger

SAR 44.78 bln

Percentage of capital increase

49.3%

NCB share price based on exchange ratio

SAR 38.50

Samba share price for merger purpose

SAR 28.45 (an increase of 3.5% over the last closing price of SAR 27.50)

Samba shareholders’ share after merger

32.6% of the merged bank’s capital

NCB shareholders’ share after merger

67.4% of the merged bank’s capital

 

Major stakeholders after merger

Owner

Stake

Public Investment Fund

37.2%

Public Pension Agency 

7.4%

General Organization for Social Insurance (GOSI)

5.8%

 

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