Nothing new: the Board of Directors and the Board of Statutory Auditors resign Atlantia after the delisting of the title from Piazza Affari. Attribute to the president Giampiero Massolo ad interim management delegations from 1 January 2023 and until the shareholders' meeting to renew the board. The group announces it in a note adding that "the meeting of the board of directors took note of the resignations of the directors and statutory auditors with effect from the shareholders' meeting to be convened, within the established technical times, for the renewal of the corporate bodies".
The BoD also confirmed Italy as the Member State of origin as issuer of bonds with a nominal unit value of 100 thousand euros listed on the Irish regulated market. Lastly, the board acknowledged that Atlantia will no longer be subject to the obligation to prepare e publication of financial reports provided for by article 154-ter Legislative Decree 58/1998 and that the Company will no longer proceed with the publication, on a voluntary basis, of the additional periodic financial information pursuant to art. 82-ter of the Issuers' Regulation.
Atlantia delisting Piazza Affari: what happened
After 35 years, Atlantia left Piazza Affari and the Ftse Mib in Milan on 9 December 2022. An operation that assigns Atlantia a value of approximately 19 billion euros, following theopa launched last April through the company Schemaquarantatrè, whose share capital is wholly owned by Schemaquarantadue, a holding company 65% owned by Sintonia – the subholding of Edizione, controlled by the family Benetton – and owned by the fund Blackstone 35%, through two Luxembourg companies.
The takeover bid had been launched to defend Atlantia from the target of the president of Real Madrid, Florentino Perez, who on 6 April, through his Spanish group Acs (Actividades de Construcción y Servicios), communicated that he had entered into an exclusive agreement with two large international investment funds, Global Infrastructure Partners and Brookfield Asset Management, to acquire the majority.
