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SAN ANTONIO (AP) - Clear Channel Communications Inc. said Thursday its board of directors has rejected a private equity group's modified buyout offer for the radio and billboard company, and there already are enough shareholder votes against the existing $19.35 billion bid to defeat it.
The new offer from the group led by Thomas H. Lee Partners LP and Bain Capital Partners LLC contemplated an increase in the payment to unaffiliated shareholders from $39 to $39.20 per share. Under the new proposal, shareholders could have chosen to receive cash or shares in the newly private company.
But Clear Channel's board decided not to accept the new terms and structure, noting that the increase was only 0.5 percent more than already offered and there had been opposition to the previously suggested equity-stake offering.
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