Deals
Nippon Steel Offers $1 Billion to Take Trading Arm Private
A hot steel slab moves along a conveyor of a plate mill at the Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp. plant in Kashima, Ibaraki, Japan
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Nippon Steel Corp. offered to pay as much as 136.6 billion yen ($1 billion) to take Nippon Steel Trading private.
Nippon Steel, which currently owns 34.5% of Nippon Steel Trading, will eventually own 80% of the company with Mitsui & Co. holding 20% if the deal succeeds and the company is delisted, according to a statement on Wednesday.