HONG KONG, March 2, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Cord Blood
Corporation (NYSE: CO) ("GCBC" or the "Company"), China's leading provider of cord blood
collection, laboratory testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing
and stem cell storage services, today announced that its board of
directors (the "Board") has received a non-binding proposal letter
from Alternate Ocean Investment Company Limited ("Alternate
Ocean"), a wholly-owned subsidiary of Haitong International
Securities Group Limited (Stock Code: 665.HK), pursuant to which
Alternate Ocean, acting on behalf of certain funds and/or entities
that it manages and/or advises, proposes to acquire all of the
outstanding ordinary shares of the Company for US$5.00 per ordinary share in cash, subject to
certain conditions.
Consistent with its fiduciary responsibilities, the Board will
carefully review the unsolicited proposal to determine the course
of action it believes is in the best interests of the Company and
its shareholders and other stakeholders. GCBC shareholders need
take no action at this time.
About Global Cord Blood Corporation
Global Cord Blood Corporation is the first and largest umbilical
cord blood banking operator in China in terms of geographical coverage and
the only cord blood banking operator with multiple licenses. Global
Cord Blood Corporation provides cord blood collection, laboratory
testing, hematopoietic stem cell processing and stem cell storage
services. For more information, please visit the Company's website
at:
http://www.globalcordbloodcorp.com
Safe Harbor Statement
This press release contains forward-looking statements within
the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, and
Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These
statements relate to future events or the Company's future
financial performance. The Company has attempted to identify
forward-looking statements by terminology including "anticipates",
"believes", "expects", "can", "continue", "could", "estimates",
"intends", "may", "plans", "potential", "predict", "should" or
"will" or the negative of these terms or other comparable
terminology. These statements are only predictions, uncertainties
and other factors may cause the Company's actual results, levels of
activity, performance or achievements to be materially different
from any future results, levels of activity, performance or
achievements expressed or implied by these forward-looking
statements. The information in this press release is not intended
to project future performance of the Company. Although the Company
believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking
statements are reasonable, the Company does not guarantee future
results, levels of activity, performance or achievements. The
Company expectations are as of the date this press release is
issued, and the Company does not intend to update any of the
forward-looking statements after the date this press release is
issued to conform these statements to actual results, unless
required by law.
For more information, please contact:
Global Cord Blood Corporation
Investor Relations Department
Tel: (+852) 3605-8180
Email: ir@globalcordbloodcorp.com
ICR, Inc.
William Zima
Tel: (+86) 10-6583-7511
U.S. Tel: (646) 405-5185
Email: William.zima@icrinc.com
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SOURCE Global Cord Blood Corporation