As the year draws to a close, two commercial and office REITs under the Mapletree umbrella decides to merge.
I chuckled when one chat group member commented that there seems to be more and more of these kinds of incestuous relationships taking place.
I would like to think that the objective of these mergers is not too different from the merger of Frasers Commercial Trust & Frasers Logistics and Industrial Trust and Capital Commercial Trust & Capitaland Mall Trust.
Usually, in this kind of merger, they would create a win-win situation but because many investors get invested in each for different reasons, they might struggle to process how to think about this merger.
If I am right, Mapletree Commercial Trust share price would be under pressure while Mapletree North Asia Trust share price would do well. This is not rocket science but usually how the share price behave for these merger and acquisition deals....