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Tassal Group chairman David Williams - Photo: Financial Review

Tassal entry is not Cooke’s first rodeo

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Wednesday, June 29, 2022, 07:00 (GMT + 9)

Canadian seafood business Cooke Inc has temporarily ended the mystery at Tassal Group, but potential created a whole new chapter in the listed salmon producer’s rollercoaster ride.

New Brunswick, Canada-based Cooke outed itself as the true owner of a 5.4 per cent stake in the Tassal, using veteran agribusiness banker and former Tassal Group chairman David Williams to buy stock on its behalf.

Cooke, a company with about C$2 billion a year turnover, isn’t in the business of buying stakes in listed Australian companies. Clearly, it’s assessing all options at Tassal, including a takeover.

Tassal’s salmon hark back to New Brusnwick, Canada, the home of its new shareholder. Photo: Financial Review

Interestingly, it’s not Cooke’s first look at Tassal or the Australian salmon industry.

It’s well-known Cooke missed out on Huon Aquaculture last year, when Brazilian JBS beat it in a three-way scrap that also involved Andrew Forrest’s Tattarang.

But Street Talk understands Cooke has had its eye on Tassal all along.

In 2010, Australian buyout firm Pacific Equity Partners lobbed a reasonably aggressive $278 million bid Tassal, that ultimately fell flat.

And guess who was lurking in the shadows at around the same time? Yep, Cooke.

Photo courtesy from Cooke Inc.

More than a decade has passed since and the privately held Cooke’s got better at executing M&A, picking up businesses around the world.

It was lured into Huon Aquaculture’s auction by Grant Samuel - and Cooke’s adviser Kidder Williams - and showed it could act decisively when it saw something it wanted.

For now, it has the corporate plumbing in place for a bid. Kidder Williams and law firm Allens are in its corner. Goldman Sachs is in Tassal’s camp.  

It would be ironic if Cooke’s interest turned into a takeover bid. Tassal’s salmon - and indeed Australia’s salmon industry - hails from Cooke’s homeland, New Brunswick.

Author / Source: Antony Macdonald, Sarah Thompson and Kanika Sood / Financial Review

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