Asciano accepts Brookfield bid

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Asciano Limited (ASX:AIO) has accepted a revised $12 billion takeover offer from Brookfield Infrastructure.
 
The final bid will provide Asciano shareholders with $6.94 in cash and 0.0387 shares in Brookfield for every Asciano share held.
 
The takeover still needs to be approved by shareholders, with a minimum support threshold of 75 per cent needing to be met. 
 
Meantime Asicano has released its full year report to 30 June 2015, reporting a net profit of $359.6 million, a 41.1 per cent increase on the previous year. 
 
An interim fully franked dividend of 8.25 cents per share was paid on March 18, but no final dividend has been declared. 

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