{"id":70572,"date":"2019-08-18T00:14:49","date_gmt":"2019-08-18T04:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=70572"},"modified":"2019-08-20T03:45:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T07:45:07","slug":"softbanks-fortress-emerges-as-white-knight-for-hotel-chain-unizo-with-1-3-billion-bid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/08\/2019\/softbanks-fortress-emerges-as-white-knight-for-hotel-chain-unizo-with-1-3-billion-bid.html","title":{"rendered":"SoftBank&#8217;s Fortress Emerges as White Knight for Hotel Chain Unizo with $1.3 Billion Bid"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n(Reuters) Japanese hotel chain Unizo Holdings (3258.T) said it received a friendly buyout offer worth up to $1.3 billion from a SoftBank Group (9984.T) investment firm, a deal that will help it fend off a rare hostile takeover bid from travel agency H.I.S.-based Fortress Investment Group will launch a tender offer from next week for all of Unizo\u2019s shares at 4,000 yen apiece ($37.68), the companies said in separate statements, trumping the 3,100 yen that H.I.S. (9603.T) has offered.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-unizo-holdings-m-a-fortress\/softbanks-fortress-emerges-as-white-knight-for-hotel-chain-unizo-with-1-3-billion-bid-idUSKCN1V605G\">To read this article:<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) Japanese hotel chain Unizo Holdings (3258.T) said it received a friendly buyout offer worth up to $1.3 billion from a SoftBank Group (9984.T) investment firm, a deal that will help it fend off a rare hostile takeover bid from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70572","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70572"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70572\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70573,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70572\/revisions\/70573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}