Meiji Shipping Co., Ltd. (TSE:9115) intends to make an offer to acquire remaining 47.85% stake in Schumag Aktiengesellschaft (DB:SCM) for €2.6 million on June 10, 2014. Miaocheng Guo intends to offer €1.35 per share of Schumag Aktiengesellschaft. Miaocheng Guo has also signed share purchase agreements with the major shareholders of Schumag Aktiengesellschaft for the offer.

As of July 24, 2014, the management Board and supervisory Board of Schumag Aktiengesellschaft unanimously recommended its shareholders to accept the offer. The transaction is subject to Chinese and German approval. Christoph Wolf, Tilman Wink, Manuel Lorenz, Thomas Gilles, Christian Atzler, Lipei Shi, Shengzhe Wang, Hagen Koeckeritz, Verena Boehm, Sarwenaz Kiani and Heiko Franke of Baker & McKenzie acted as legal advisors and Gruen Advisors Gmbh acted as financial advisor for Meiji Shipping Co., Ltd.