Stephen Withers
Monday, 18 July 2011 16:49
IT Industry -
Listed Tech
The Federal Court has approved the schemes of arrangement that will allow CSC to acquire all of iSOFT's issued shares.
The proposed
takeover of healthcare software specialist iSOFT by CSC is set to go ahead.
A former iSOFT executive tried to throw a spanner in the works with a New South Wales Supreme Court action over a shareholding, but his action was
dismissed with costs by the court.
More recently, the European Union
gave its blessing to the acquisition by CSC.
The latest development in the saga is today's Federal Court of Australia orders approving the the schemes of arrangement that would see CSC acquiring all of iSOFT's issued shares and the cancellation of all options issued by iSOFT. The order will become legally binding tomorrow, and then iSOFT shares will cease trading on the ASX at the end of the day.
Shareholders and optionholders will receive payment on July 29. Fully-paid shareholders will receive 17c per share, and regular optionholders 0.1c per share.
The value of options issued under the iSOFT employee incentive plan varies from 1c to 3.3c per option, depending on the tranche.