On April 1, Transmeridian Exploration Inc. announced the termination of company's merger agreement with British Virgin Islands-registered Trans Meridian International Inc. (TMI), formed by the company's Chairman and CEO Lorrie Olivier. The company entered into a definitive merger agreement with TMI (BVI) pursuant to which the BVI company had to make a tender offer of $3 per share, to purchase all of company's outstanding shares of common stock, in a deal valued at $825 million. In order to complete the proposed financing arrangements, detailed information was required to be provided by Transmeridian Exploration Inc. until March 21, 2008.
However, the deal began to fall apart in February when BVI corporation said it is unable to meet the financing deadline for its offer. Transmeridian Exploration is not required to pay any termination fee.
Now, termination of the definitive agreement with the BVI-based TMI may result in a downward adjustment to the conversion price of Transmeridian's junior preferred stock from the current conversion price of $1.90, to a revised conversion price equal to the forward 15-day volume weighted average price of Transmeridian's common stock, commencing on the March 31, 2008 merger agreement termination date.
Transmeridian will continue to seek proposals on the acquisition of the company from other interested parties.
