Lord Rothermere is considering taking the Daily Mail private in a deal that could value the newspaper group at 810m, a move that would end a 90-year run as a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. distributed on December 30, 2021). Market Tracker will continue to monitor this transaction as it develops. business of which is being the holding company of Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), a media and entertainment The company has made 1.2bn from disposals in recent years of its stake in the property portal Zoopla, the education business Hobsons and the energy data firm Genscape. Lord Rothermere said his role is not to "operationally manage" DMGT, Lord Rothermere at Margaret Thatcher's funeral, A source said there is fierce competition between the papers run by Paul Dacre and Geordie Greig, Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims. Rothermeres to bring Daily Mail under family control in 2.7bn deal The inclusion of a person or entity in the ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database is not intended to suggest or imply that they have engaged in illegal or improper conduct. Consideration: Beneficial ownership Consequently, DMGT shareholders will also receive a special dividend of 991p per share and a final dividend worth 17.3p a share, bringing the total value of the offer and investor payouts to 12.63 a share, just over 3bn including debts. ROTHERMERE CONTINUATION LIMITED | ICIJ Offshore Leaks Database Contact Info. The takeover will require shareholder acceptances in respect of 90% of DMGTs A shares in issue and should the deal proceed, will consolidate Lord Rothermeres control over the publisher. DMGTs pension scheme trustees may be the first to input in a takeover in Q4 2021, but they are certainly not the first this year, with Q3 2021 seeing pension scheme trustees involved in the bids for Morrisons and Ultra Electronics (see: Market Tracker Trend Report: Trends in Public M&A in Q3 2021 and Practice Note: Pension issues on a takeoverTakeover Code requirements (a subscription to LexisPSL Corporate is required)). Why is Lord Rothermere taking Daily Mail and General Trust private Daily Mail set up to evade tax - not very British and rather a civil proceeding of a judicial or administrative body of competent jurisdiction and as a result of such proceeding was or is subject Many people and entities have the same or similar names. dmg events is formed (under a different name) to manage and develop a portfolio of events assets. a Group (See Instructions) (a) o(b) o, Check if disclosure of legal proceedings We believe the terms of our offer to be fair, particularly bearing in mind not only the existing level of debt within DMGT at a time of increasingly difficult market conditions, but also the restrictions imposed on the operation of the business as part of the settlement with the pension trustees, said Rothermere. [7], He ranked fourth in the Publishing, Advertising, and PR section of The Sunday Times Rich List of 2013 with an estimated wealth of 720 million. It was, however, small when compared to the Viscount Rothermeres net worth. made an offer to the other shareholders of DMGT to acquire from them those shares in DMGT not already beneficially owned by Rothermere. This morning, "DMGT announced that its controlling shareholder, Rothermere Continuation Limited (RCL), had notified it of a possible offer for the entire share capital of DMGT not already owned by RCL. is parent company DMGT has agreed to an 850m buyout by its biggest shareholder and chairman Lord Rothermere, taking the firm private after 89 years on the London Stock Exchange. beneficially owned by it, Rothermere beneficially owned (and continues to own) all of the DMGT ordinary shares. in Jersey. 2019 thelondoneconomic.com - TLE, International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London EC1A 2BN. ROTHERMERE CONTINUATION LIMITED :: Jersey :: OpenCorporates Lord Rothermere is also the fourth member of his family to become executive chairman of the group. Lord Rothermere to take charge of DMGT as CEO steps down The offer for the residual businesses is substantially below what we believe is a fair and reasonable valuation, said Chris Field, fund manager at MAM. to Receive that own the majority of the voting equity interests in Rothermere. Our History - DMGT Lord Rothermere agrees deal to take Daily Mail owner private - Yahoo! On 3 November 2021, Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT), which owns Daily Mail, Mail on Sunday, the Metro and inews, announced that it had agreed to the terms of a 2.7bn recommended offer from Rothermere Continuation Limited (RCL), a Bermuda registered company owned by a trust held for the benefit of Lord Rothermere and his immediate family The former employee said Mr Greig had been brought in because he had a "softer" approach than Mr Dacre, but the result was intense competition between the Daily Mail and the Mail on Sunday - driven by their "warring editors". All Rights Reserved. View our Privacy PolicyandTerms & Conditions, TheLondonEconomic.com Open, accessible and accountable news, sport, culture and lifestyle. written. the Ordinary Shares referred to in Item 3 as a result of the Special Dividend and hold the Ordinary Shares for investment purposes. to a judgment, decree of final order enjoining future violations of, or prohibiting or mandating activities subject to, federal or state Rothermere. DMGT participates in the successful Zoopla Property Group IPO and sells 40% of its stake. Can Nigeria's election result be overturned? The Mail on Sunday is launched as a sister title to the Daily Mail. The company has made 1.2bn from disposals in recent years of its stake in the property portal Zoopla, the education business Hobsons and the energy data firm Genscape. DMGT is 100% owned by Rothermere Continuation Limited (RCL) RCL has always owned the majority of DMGT's voting shares and, following a successful offer by RCL for all of the shares it did not already own, DMGT delisted from the London Stock Exchange in January 2022. The Fourth Viscount Rothermere, Jonathan Harmsworth appointed DMGT Chairman. Mr. Rothermere is Chairman & Chief Executive Officer at Daily Mail & General Trust Plc, Chairman of dmg media Ltd. (a subsidiary of Daily Mail & General Trust Plc) and Executive Chairman for General Trust Plc. An earlier version incorrectly said RCL was registered in Bermuda; the company is in fact administered in Jersey. Daily Mail and General Trust plcTel: +44 (0) 20 7938 6000, Northcliffe House2 Derry StreetLondonUnited KingdomW8 5TT, Copyright 2022 Daily Mail and General Trust plc | Registered in England & Wales | Company number: 184594, Modern Slavery Act Transparency Statement. The family, which founded the Daily Mail in 1896 and listed parent company Daily Mail and General Trust in 1932, has tabled a 255p per share offer valuing the newspaper business at 850m including debt. [9], The BBC's Newsnight programme at the end of January 2017 reported that former prime minister David Cameron had approached Lord Rothermere to sack Eurosceptic Paul Dacre, the editor of the Daily Mail in the run up to the 2016 EU membership referendum. FORM 8 (OPD) PUBLIC OPENING POSITION DISCLOSURE BY A PARTY TO AN OFFER Rules 8.1 and 8.2 of the Takeover Code (the "Code") 1. The Rothermere family has made an offer to take the publisher of the Daily Mail, i and Metro private in a 3.1bn deal, in a move that will end a 90-year run as a publicly listed company on the London Stock Exchange. Lord Rothermere, chairman of DMGT and director of RCL, said: The sale of RMS and the Cazoo IPO have delivered excellent shareholder returns, but inevitably DMGT is now a considerably smaller group of businesses, with significantly greater exposure to consumer media. Always cite the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists when using this data. Check if the Aggregate Amount in Majedie Asset Management, one of DMGTs largest shareholders controlling 4.6% of the companys class A shares, said that the business is worth at least twice the price offered. There are legitimate uses for offshore companies and trusts. DMGT was founded by Harold Sidney Harmsworth, the first Viscount Rothermere, in 1922. The Daily Mail was first. The same St. Lucian company also owns land and one further, unidentified property in the Kensington area. A DMGT spokesman would only say the 4th Viscounts domicile status was a private matter. He said he would usually "refer them back to Paul Dacre" but would sometimes raise an issue with the editor if a complaint appeared to have "merit". The cash proceeds of the deals 610p a share would be distributed to DMGT shareholders through a special dividend. 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Daily Mail owner closes in on deal to take newspaper private DMGT delists from the London Stock Exchange following a successful offer by RCL for all of DMGTs shares. But what of the Mail newspaper group itself? Video, Russian minister laughed at for Ukraine war claims, Harry: I feared losing memories of mum during therapy, US-made cheese can be called 'gruyere' - court, AOC under investigation for Met Gala dress, The children left behind in Cuba's exodus, Alex Murdaugh's legal troubles are far from over, Saving Private Ryan actor Tom Sizemore dies at 61, Walkie Talkie architect Rafael Violy dies aged 78. In August, DMGT completed the first of the preconditions, selling the insurance risk business RMS to the credit rating agency Moodys for 1.4bn. DMGT acquires Risk Management Solutions, a fast-growing business in the emerging catastrophe risk modelling sector. Early Termination Updates on Twitter. any time and from time to time, to acquire additional Ordinary Shares or other securities of the Issuer, dispose of some or all of the Story . Since 1995, three years before the Hon Jonathan Harmsworth (as he then was) inherited the Daily Mail & General Trust plc empire from his father, the 3rd Viscount, the group has been controlled through a company, Rothermere Continuation Ltd, registered in Bermuda but run from Jersey. amendment containing information which would alter disclosures provided in a prior cover page. This article was amended on 14 July 2021. DMGT officially delisted and cancelled trading from the London Stock Exchange, ending its 90 year history.Perhaps this tweet sums it up? Filing Agreement by and among the Reporting Persons, dated as of June 24, 2022 (filed But we can't do it without you. Mr Miliband said the apology was not enough and said Lord Rothermere must investigate the "culture and practices" of journalists at his newspapers. The Rothermere family has put forward a potential offer that would involve buying about 70% of the Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) group that it does not already own. Virgin Islands and is a resident in Jersey. (a) Full name of discloser: Rothermere Continuation Limited ("RCL ")(b) Owner or controller of interests and short positions disclosed, if different from 1(a): The naming of nominee or vehicle companies is insufficient. One change he has instituted since becoming chairman is requiring directors to retire at age 75. DMGT distributes its c.49% stake in Euromoney Institutional Investor PLC and 200m cash to shareholders. The Daily Mail - which worried that the "complicated structure" of the Sussex businesses showed that "Meghan planned to keep her and Harry's business as opaque as possible" - is owned by Daily Mail General Trust, which was until 2020 owned by a holding company called Rothermere Continuation Limited, which was incorporated in . After reasonable inquiry and to 1 Level of acceptances and interests in relevant securities. Lord Rothermere, the head of the family that founded the Daily Mail in 1896 and a director of Rothermere Continuation Limited (RCL), said: "The sale of RMS and the Cazoo IPO have delivered . In September 2013, the Daily Mail published an article headlined "the man who hated Britain" about Ralph Miliband, the late father of Labour leader Ed Miliband - who called the story a "lie". Like Mr Dacre, he told the inquiry there had been no phone hacking by journalists at the company's papers, and argued that self-regulation "protects the press from political interference". On 12 July 2021, Daily Mail and General Trust plc (DMGT) announced that Rothermere Continuation Limited (RCL), a Bermuda registered company owned by a trust held for the benefit of Viscount Rothermere and his immediate family (DMGT's controlling shareholder), would be prepared to make a possible offer for the entire issued and to be issued share capital of DMGT should certain transactions .