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CBN, AMCON sell Polaris Bank to SCIL at N50 billion

Strategic Capital Investment Limited (SCIL) has officially announced the signing of a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the acquisition of ...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief October 21, 2022
Updated October 21, 2022 at 8:23 AM
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CBN, AMCON sell Polaris Bank to SCIL at N50 billion
Strategic Capital Investment Limited (SCIL) has officially announced the signing of a Share Purchase Agreement (SPA) for the acquisition of 100% of the government's shares in Polaris Bank by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and the Asset Management Company of Nigeria (AMCON).

The House of Representatives approved the sale of the bank on Wednesday, noting that the acquisition followed established protocol and received the necessary presidential approval.

A statement issued by the Director of the Corporate Communications Department at the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Osita Nwanisobi, on behalf of the CBN and AMCON, yesterday, disclosed that SCIL had paid an upfront consideration of N50 billion to acquire 100% of the equity of Polaris Bank and had also accepted the terms of the agreement which include the full repayment of the sum of N1.305 trillion, being the consideration bonds injected.

According to the statement, “the CBN thus received an immediate return for the value it has created in Polaris Bank during the stabilisation period, as well as ensuring that all funds originally provided to support the intervention are recovered.”

The statement added, “The sale was coordinated by a Divestment Committee (the ‘Committee’) comprising representatives of the CBN and AMCON, and advised by legal and financial consultants. The Committee conducted a sale process by ‘private treaty’, as provided in Section 34(5) of the AMCON Act to avoid negative speculations, retain value and preserve financial system stability.

“In the process, parties who had formally expressed an interest in acquiring Polaris Bank, subsequent to the CBN intervention in 2018, were invited to submit financial and technical proposals. Invitations to submit proposals were sent to 25 pre-qualified interested parties, out of which three (3) parties eventually submitted final purchase proposals following technical evaluation.

“All submissions were subject to a rigorous transaction process from which SCIL emerged as the preferred bidder having presented the most comprehensive technical/financial purchase proposal as well as the highest rated growth plans for Polaris Bank.”

Meanwhile, the CBN Governor, Mr. Godwin Emefiele, was quoted as saying that the sale of the bank “marks the completion of a landmark intervention in a strategic institution in the Nigerian banking sector by the CBN and AMCON.”

It will be recalled that Polaris has been operating as a bridge bank since 2018 when the Central Bank of Nigeria intervened to revoke the licence of the former Skye Bank Plc and established Polaris Bank to assume its assets and certain liabilities.
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