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Subsequent Event
3 Months Ended
Mar. 31, 2020
Subsequent Event  
Subsequent Events

14. Subsequent Event

On April 9, 2020,  the board of directors of the Company reached agreement with the board of directors of PureCircle Limited, a Bermuda company listed on the Main Market of the London Stock Exchange (“PureCircle”), on the terms of a recommended acquisition of PureCircle for a total purchase price of approximately GBP 185.3 million (the “acquisition”). Upon the completion of the transaction, PureCircle will be a wholly owned subsidiary of Ingredion SRSS Holdings Limited, a United Kingdom private limited company formed for purposes of the acquisition, which will be 75 percent-owned by the Company. The Company will fund the transaction from available cash or borrowings.  

The acquisition will be effected by means of a court-approved scheme of arrangement under the Bermuda Companies Act and is subject to prior approval by a vote of PureCircle’s shareholders. Completion of the acquisition also is subject to certain other customary conditions, including, among others, the absence of any law, regulation or judgment that prohibits or makes illegal the consummation of the acquisition, the absence of certain material events affecting PureCircle, achievement of specified performance measures and the expiration or early termination of the waiting period under the Hart-Scott-Rodino Antitrust Improvements Act of 1976, as amended.  Subject to satisfaction of the closing conditions, the Company expects the acquisition to be completed in the third quarter of 2020.