Manila, Philippines : 26 October 2011 - The Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company ("PLDT") (NYSE: PLDT) (PSE: TEL) and JG Summit Holdings, Inc. ("JG Summit") (PSE: JGS) jointly announce that PLDT has successfully completed the acquisition of a majority interest in Digital Telecommunications Philippines, Inc. ("Digitel") (PSE: DGTL) from JG Summit and other shareholders of Digitel, in a landmark share swap transaction valued at about P69.2 billion.
Together with 3.277 billion shares representing 51.55% of Digitel’s outstanding common stock, PLDT also acquired the zero-coupon bonds issued by Digitel Group to JG Summit, which were assumed to be convertible or exchangeable into 18.6 billion Digitel shares, and assumed P34.1 billion in advances made by JG Summit to Digitel Group (collectively, the "Enterprise Assets"). As payment for the Enterprise Assets, PLDT issued 27,679,210 new shares of common stock at the issue price of P2,500 per PLDT share. As a result, the JG Summit Group presently holds approximately 12.9% of PLDT’s expanded outstanding common stock.
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