CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--CNA Financial Corporation (“CNA Financial”) (NYSE: CNA) and CNA Surety Corporation (“CNA Surety”) announced today the successful completion of CNA Financial’s acquisition of CNA Surety. CNA Surety is now a wholly-owned indirect subsidiary of CNA Financial.
On April 21, 2011, CNA Financial and CNA Surety announced the entry into a definitive merger agreement providing for the acquisition of the shares of CNA Surety not already owned by CNA Financial and its subsidiaries. Pursuant to the merger agreement, Surety Acquisition Corporation, a subsidiary of CNA Financial, commenced a tender offer on May 11, 2011 to acquire all of the outstanding shares of common stock of CNA Surety not owned by CNA Financial or its subsidiaries. As previously announced, the tender offer expired at midnight on June 8, 2011 and all of the shares tendered in the tender offer have been accepted for payment.
On June 10, 2011, Surety Acquisition Corporation was merged with and into CNA Surety in accordance with the merger agreement. As a result of the merger, all shares of CNA Surety common stock held by the minority stockholders of CNA Surety that were not tendered in the tender offer were, subject to appraisal rights under Delaware law, converted into the right to receive $26.55 per share in cash, the same consideration paid in the tender offer. Effective after the close of market today, trading in CNA Surety common stock on the New York Stock Exchange will cease.
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