Wholly-owned bid and cool the potatoes Ali-youku potatoes will be completed next month, Ali Baba-IT information

The evening of March 14, youku potato announced that, at its extraordinary general meeting on Monday, shareholders had voted to approve the company's privatization deal reached last November. Trading is expected to be completed in early April 2016, after the transaction is completed, youku potato delisting from the NYSE.

Youku potato announced on November 6, 2015, had reached a final agreement with Alibaba. Alibaba shares United States depository shares (ADS) $ 27.60 in cash to buy YouTube potato. Exclude Alibaba hot-potato shares of youku, the deal for YouTube potatoes remaining stake valued at 4.77 billion dollars. As youku potatoes account still has $ 1.1 billion in cash, equivalent to Alibaba for $ 3.67 billion bid and cool the potatoes remaining shares. At today's special general meeting on behalf of youku potatoes about 99.8% of class a and class b common shareholders vote in favour of the privatisation agreement.

Youku potatoes previously revealed to employees, Ali after the acquisition, youku potatoes will continue to operate independently in the future, the company management team structure unchanged, not only promoting the same, external cooperation remain unchanged, Koo is the Chairman and CEO of the group.

阿里全资收购优酷土豆将于下月初完成 - 优酷土豆,阿里巴巴 - IT资讯

3月14日晚间，优酷土豆宣布，在周一召开的特别股东大会上，公司股东已投票批准了公司去年11月达成的私有化协议。预计交易将于2016年4月初完成，交易完成后，优酷土豆将从纽交所退市。

优酷土豆于2015年11月6日宣布，已与阿里巴巴达成最终的收购协议。阿里巴巴将以每股美国存托股(ADS)27.60美元的现金收购优酷土豆。排除阿里巴巴已持有的优酷土豆股份，该交易为优酷土豆剩余股份估值47.7亿美元。由于优酷土豆账上仍有11亿美元现金，因此相当于阿里巴巴以36.7亿美元收购优酷土豆剩余股份。在今日的特别股东大会上，代表优酷土豆约99.8%的A股和B股普通股股东投票支持该私有化协议。

优酷土豆此前发给员工的内部信显示，阿里收购后，未来优酷土豆依然会独立运营，公司管理团队架构不变，既有项目推进不变，对外合作保持不变，古永锵还是集团董事长兼CEO。