Toshiba says seals $18 billion deal to sell chip unit to Bain Capital group
Reuters
Published Sep 20, 2017 14:50
Toshiba says seals $18 billion deal to sell chip unit to Bain Capital group
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Toshiba Corp (T:6502) said on Wednesday it has agreed to sell its prized semiconductor business to a group led by U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital LP, a key step in keeping the struggling Japanese conglomerate listed on the Tokyo exchange.
Toshiba said in a nighttime announcement through the exchange its board decided to sign a contract for the deal worth about 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) (£13.27 billion), the latest and perhaps final twist in a deal that only hours earlier had seen the company leading towards an agreement with its U.S. joint venture partner Western Digital Corp (O:WDC).
The decision to sell the world's No. 2 producer of NAND memory chips, first reported by Reuters on Wednesday, was made at a board meeting earlier in the day.
Toshiba said the agreement assumed the deal would weather legal challenges raised by Western Digital. A Western Digital spokeswoman said the company did not have an immediate comment.
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