Malaysian firm brought suitor to Roc Oil


Dialog, again. Dateline 2014-08-12, Business Spectator:

A previously silent player in the Roc Oil takeover saga has emerged as a little known Malaysian company, which may have helped to broker the successful $474 million offer from Chinese conglomerate Fosun.

Dialog Group, a Malaysian company providing technology services to the oil and gas industry, has emerged as a key player in the dialogue between Fosun and Roc Oil, reporting by Data Room has discovered.

It is believed that Dialog secretly accumulated a 4.3 per cent holding in Roc Oil via ANZ earlier this year. An ANZ subsidiary is listed as the second-biggest holder in Roc Oil, after fund manager Allan Gray, according to Bloomberg data.

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