$爱康国宾(KANG)$ 17.8美元/ads私有化


BEIJING, Aug. 31, 2015 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iKang Healthcare Group, Inc. ("iKang" or the "Company") (KANG), China's largest private preventive healthcare services provider, today announced that its board of directors (the "Board") has received a non-binding proposal letter, dated August 31, 2015, from Mr. Ligang Zhang ("Mr. Zhang"), founder, chairman and chief executive officer of iKang and certain of his affiliated entities, and FV Investment Holdings ("FountainVest", together with Mr. Zhang and his affiliated entities, the "Buyer Group"), proposing a "going-private" transaction (the "Transaction") to acquire all of the outstanding Class A common shares ("Shares") and American depositary shares ("ADSs", each representing 1/2 Share) of the Company not already owned by the Buyer Group for US$17.80 in cash per American depositary share of the Company ("ADS"), which represents a premium of 10.8% to the closing trading price of the Company's ADSs on August 28, 2015, and a premium of 18.0% and 9.7% to the volume-weighted average closing price of the Company's ADSs during the last 7 and 30 trading days, respectively.