Linklaters, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and Hengeler Mueller are all advising on E.ON's $ 43bn (# 38bn) deal to acquire a controlling stake in renewable
energy business Innogy from German rival RWE.
Among the largest deals clinched this quarter were U.S. health insurer Cigna Corp's $ 67 billion deal to acquire U.S. pharmacy chain Express Scripts Holding Co and German utility E.ON SE's $ 38.5 billion deal to acquire RWE AG's renewable
energy business Innogy SE.
Green
energy business Innogy, separated from parent company RWE and publicly listed in 2016, is to be broken up.
German
energy business Innogy has announced it has acquired Statkraft's 50 percent share in the Triton Knoll offshore wind project.
Not exact matches
According to the companies, EON buys RWE's shares in
Innogy, a subsidiary with both a strong renewable
energy portfolio and distribution grids and power retail, while RWE gets EON's renewable
business, including minority interests in two nuclear power plants.
First, E.ON will acquire RWE's 76.8 % stake in
Innogy — a renewables company created in April 2016 as RWE spun off its renewables, retail, and grid
businesses — and RWE will pay E.ON $ 1.5 billion to take on
Innogy's renewables
business, along with E.ON's minority stakes in two RWE nuclear plants (Emsland and Gundremmingen),
Innogy's gas storage
business, and
Innogy's participation in hydro - rich Austrian
energy utility Kelag.
While this is a rather new
business area for
energy utilities, Eon and
Innogy share the vision that digital consumer solutions rather than generation should become the focus of
energy utilities in the future.
July 10, 2017 Wolfie Zhao
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