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French stock market watchdog AMF extends EDF buyout offer after legal challenge

Published 07/12/2022, 14:54
Updated 07/12/2022, 15:56
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: The logo of Electricite de France (EDF) is seen in front of electrical pylons at the Tricastin nuclearÊpower plant site in Saint-Paul-Trois-Chateaux, France, November 21, 2022.    REUTERS/Eric Gaillard/File Photo

PARIS (Reuters) -French markets regulator AMF said on Wednesday it had decided the French state must extend its offer to buy out minority shareholder in nuclear power group EDF (EPA:EDF) pending a Paris court ruling on a legal challenge against the AMF's earlier approval of the offer.

The offer that opened on Nov. 24 was to due expire on Dec. 22. AMF said it will soon publish a new timetable for the offer.

An appeal was launched on Dec. 2 by a group of employee shareholders asking the court to cancel AMF's aproval of the offer.

France is buying out the 16% of EDF it does not already own to take the company private and have a free hand in running it as European governments seek to secure its energy supplies.

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