The businessman from Cali Jaime Gilinski achieved 34.57% of the shares of the financial conglomerate in the three Public Acquisition Offers (OPA) that he launched for the shares of the Sura Group, however, as had been reported in some specialized business media , would have acquired more shares on the Colombian Stock Exchange.
Gilinski himself confirmed it in an interview published this Wednesday in Semana, a media outlet owned by him: “Since November of last year we started the OPA process in Nutresa. Later, with the Sura Group. To date, we have managed to have a 38 percent stake in Grupo Sura and in Nutresa 31 percent”.
Gilinski had already warned in the OPA booklets that once their offers were completed would be free to continue acquiring shares in the Colombian stock market.
So far, Grupo Sura has not updated the list of shareholders, it must do so towards the end of this month, to clearly understand who left the titles and how the new shareholder cake was composed, in which, apparently, Gilinski would be the largest owner, followed by Grupo Argos, which has 27.86% of the conglomerate’s shares, and Grupo Nutresa, which has 13.07%.. It should be noted that other stakes in Sura of companies of the Grupo Empresarial Antioqueño are held by Cementos Argos and Fundación Grupo Argos with 6.08% and 2.29%, respectively.
If the banker managed to complete that stake is likely to gain another chair on the board of directors, where it already has two members.
Currently, the Financial Superintendence of Colombia is studying a takeover bid launched by Nugil, a Gilinski Group company, for the shares of Grupo Argos, for which it will pay $4.28. Its objective is to obtain between 26% and 32.5% of the infrastructure conglomerate.