{"id":16879,"date":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/the-main-shareholder-of-hhla-has-initiated-the-procedure-for-the-compulsory-buyout-of-minority-shareholders-shares\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:00:00","slug":"the-main-shareholder-of-hhla-has-initiated-the-procedure-for-the-compulsory-buyout-of-minority-shareholders-shares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/the-main-shareholder-of-hhla-has-initiated-the-procedure-for-the-compulsory-buyout-of-minority-shareholders-shares\/","title":{"rendered":"The main shareholder of HHLA has initiated the procedure for the compulsory buyout of minority shareholders\u2019 shares."},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"entry-content\">\n<p>Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft SE (PoH) has officially notified the board of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) of its intention to conduct a compulsory buyout of minority shareholders. This involves the transfer of all outstanding HHLA A-shares to PoH, with the payment of cash compensation. The company is thus initiating a so-called squeeze-out procedure in accordance with German corporate law.<\/p>\n<p>PoH, whose shareholders are the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg and the MSC Group, owns more than 95% of HHLA shares. This allows it to act as a majority shareholder within the meaning of \u00a7327a of the German Joint-Stock Company Act and initiate a compulsory buyout of the remaining shares. The amount of cash compensation for minority shareholders will be determined by PoH based on the company\u2019s valuation.<\/p>\n<p>The correctness and validity of the proposed compensation will be further verified by an independent auditor appointed by the court. The squeeze-out procedure will become fully effective upon approval at the general meeting of HHLA shareholders and subsequent registration of the decision in the commercial register.<\/p>\n<\/section>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Port of Hamburg Beteiligungsgesellschaft SE (PoH) has officially notified the board of Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG (HHLA) of its intention to conduct a compulsory buyout of minority shareholders. This involves the transfer of all outstanding HHLA A-shares to PoH, with the payment of cash compensation. The company is thus initiating a so-called squeeze-out procedure in accordance with German corporate law.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16880,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gruzingeo.com\/ka\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}