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Banco BPM’s board meets to start discussing UniCredit’s takeover bid

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November 26, 2024
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Banco BPM’s board meets to start discussing UniCredit’s takeover bid

By Andrea Mandala and Valentina Za

MILAN (Reuters) – Banco BPM gathers its board on Tuesday for an initial discussion on the 10 billion euro ($10.5 billion) unsolicited takeover offer that rival UniCredit has launched for Italy’s third-largest bank.

Monday’s move upset Italy’s Treasury which had been hoping BPM would merge with bailed-out Monte dei Paschi di Siena (MPS), and which had just sold 15% of MPS at a premium, including 5% to BPM, to encourage that. 

UniCredit CEO Andrea Orcel said his bank could not afford to be sidelined as consolidation in Italy sped up.

Shares in Banco BPM closed up 5.5% on Monday at 7 euros, above the 6.657 euros a share offered by UniCredit in its all-share offer – a sign the market sees the bid’s 0.5% premium as too low. They rose 1% in early trade on Tuesday. 

The board meets at 0830 GMT. Italian news agency ANSA quoted a Banco BPM board member on Tuesday as saying UniCredit’s bid was “hostile”.

Orcel acknowledged in an investor call on Monday that the bid’s price was close to the market price, noting that a cash component can be added later on.

The bid is non-binding and has to be confirmed within 20 days, by which deadline UniCredit must file the offer document with Italy’s market regulator.

Shares in UniCredit, driven higher with generous payouts during Orcel’s first three-and-a-half years at the bank, fell 1.2% on Tuesday after a 4.8% drop the previous day.

Putting to use skills he honed during a 30-year career in investment banking, Orcel in September turned UniCredit into the biggest investor in Commerzbank (ETR:CBKG).

The move sparked a political backlash. With Germany now heading to national elections, Orcel said he had decided to bid for BPM, which has always been a target, because there was no opportunity to advance on Commerzbank.

UniCredit ditched at the last minute a buyout offer for Banco BPM in early 2022, sources have previously told Reuters, just before the Ukraine war broke out.

Since then, Banco BPM has built up defences through a number of partnerships that can be hard to untangle ahead of expiry and would saddle a buyer with long-term contracts that could eat away at a portion of fee revenues.

Banco BPM’s main partner is Credit Agricole (OTC:CRARY), the French bank that became Banco BPM’s main shareholder with a 9.2% stake after UniCredit’s aborted buyout bid in 2022.

Credit Agricole’s move irked Orcel, people with direct knowledge of the matter had previously told Reuters, complicating relations between UniCredit and Credit Agricole-owned Amundi, Europe’s biggest asset manager.

Amundi partnered with UniCredit after buying the Italian bank’s asset management business in 2017. The two are tied by a contract that runs until 2027, which Orcel has been seeking to renegotiate early to improve terms for his bank.

On Monday Orcel said he was eager to engage with Banco BPM’s investors, especially some “industrial” ones, to discuss potential solutions given the offer’s low price.

A spokesperson for Credit Agricole on Tuesday told Reuters the bank had not applied to supervisors to raise its Banco BPM holding above 9.9%.

($1 = 0.9542 euros)

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