Grifols minority shareholders team up to ask for a board seat
MADRID, Sept 20 (Reuters) -Three investment funds with holdings in Spanish drugmaker Grifols GRLS.MC have teamed up to ask to fill a vacant seat on the company's board, they said in a statement late on Thursday.
Flat Footed LLC, along with Mason Capital Management LLC and Sachem Head Capital Management LP, which hold a combined 7.72% stake in Grifols, picked Paul Herendeen, a former senior executive at other large pharmaceutical companies, to be their representative on the company's board, the statement said.
They said Grifols, which produces plasma-based medicines, had "an attractive growth profile" and its shares were undervalued and they wanted to make sure any takeover offer would include "a price that is fair for all shareholders".
Grifols lost a third of its market value in January when short-seller fund Gotham City Research started releasing several reports accusing Grifols of overstating earnings and understating debt. Following the reports Grifols announced governance changes and revised its reported leverage higher.
The Grifols family, which holds a stake of around 30% in the company, and Canadian fund Brookfield BN.TO agreed in July to evaluate a possible joint takeover bid for Grifols shares with the intent to delist it.
Grifols earlier this month said the founding family and Brookfield were in the process of due diligence and had not made any decision on an offer yet.
Reporting by Natalia Siniawski; Editing by Emelia Sithole-Matarise
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