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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 24 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Bunge Limited ("Bunge") (NYSE: BG) today announced that it has entered into an agreement to become the 100% owner of Usina Moema Participacoes S.A. ("Moema Par"). Moema Par is a holding company that wholly owns one sugarcane mill in Brazil and has ownership interests in five others. Together, the cluster of six mills ("Moema Group") has an annual crushing capacity of 15.4 million metric tons. With this transaction, Bunge will have a 60% effective share of the total capacity, representing Moema Par's wholly owned mill and its interests in four of the five other mills.
The transaction will be structured as a share exchange, and under the terms of the agreement, shareholders in Moema Par will be entitled to receive approximately 7.3 million common shares of Bunge Limited, which includes a payment of approximately $36 million in respect of working capital. Based on yesterday's closing price of Bunge's common shares, the value of the transaction is approximately $896 million, including approximately $480 million of net debt and excluding this working capital amount. The final number of shares to be issued will be based on the amount of net indebtedness and working capital of Moema Par at closing.
In the coming weeks, Bunge may enter into agreements to secure some or all of the remaining interests in the mills that constitute the Moema Group. These transactions would be on economic terms consistent with the Moema Par transaction.
If, in addition to completing the Moema Par transaction, Bunge secures 100% of the remaining outstanding interests in the Moema Group mills, shareholders in Moema Par and other shareholders in the mills would receive a total of approximately 13.4 million common shares of Bunge Limited, which includes a payment of approximately $60 mi
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