Yatra Board Has Unanimously Recommended That Yatra Shareholders NOT Tender Their Shares Into Magna’s Offer
Offer of $1.10 Per Share Substantially Undervalues the Company and Is an Attempt to Opportunistically Capitalize on the Current Trading Price and Buy De Facto Control of the Company
Gurugram, India and New York, Sept. 14, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Yatra Online, Inc. (NASDAQ: YTRA) (“Yatra” or the “Company”), India’s leading corporate travel services provider and one of India’s leading online travel companies, today issued the following statement regarding Magna Holdings Ltd.’s (“Magna”) extension of its unsolicited partial tender offer to acquire up to 20,000,000 ordinary shares of the Company for $1.10 per share in cash, less any applicable withholding taxes and without interest:
Yatra’s Board of Directors (the “Board”) has unanimously concluded that Magna’s unsolicited partial tender offer (the “Offer”) is inadequate, undervalues the Company and is not in the best interests of Yatra and its shareholders. The Board believes that the Offer is below the intrinsic value of the Company and an attempt by Magna to opportunistically capitalize on the current trading price for the shares rather than to compensate shareholders for the underlying value of the Company.
Nothing in Magna’s recent amendment to the Offer changes the Board’s conclusion. The Offer does not reflect a compelling premium, particularly in light of the ownership position of up to approximately 31% of the outstanding shares, and the influence over the Company, that Magna seeks.
Magna still has not told shareholders who it is, including who controls Magna and who has supplied its financing. Magna’s amended filings identify only three individuals: Anita Mitesh Master, a British citizen described only as Magna’s “Director of Operations,” and two newly disclosed directors, Tanuja Nair and Bibi Nafichia Auckbaraullee, both citizens of Mauritius whose only stated occupation is serving as directors of Magna. Magna’s filings provide no professional background for any of them, including no indication that any of them have experience in online travel, in the Indian travel industry or in operating or investing in a public company. Magna is also a recently formed entity with no operating history that has provided no financial statements and no meaningful information from which shareholders could assess its ability to pay for the shares or the characteristics of the persons that will attempt to exercise de facto control over the Company.
We appreciate the support we have received and continue to encourage all Yatra shareholders not to tender their shares into the Offer. We similarly encourage those who have tendered to withdraw their shares.
H.C. Wainwright & Co., LLC is acting as financial advisor to Yatra and Goodwin Procter LLP is serving as legal counsel to Yatra.
About Yatra Online, Inc.
Yatra Online, Inc. is the ultimate parent company of Yatra Online Limited, a public listed company on the NSE and BSE (hereinafter referred to as “Yatra India”), whose corporate office is based in Gurugram, India. Yatra India is India’s largest corporate travel services provider in terms of number of corporate clients with over 1,340 large corporate customers and approximately 60,750 registered SME customers and the second-largest player in the TMC and corporate OTA segment in the country in terms of market share for fiscal year 2024 (Videc report). Leisure and business travelers use Yatra India’s mobile applications, its website, www.yatra.com, and its other offerings and services to explore, research, compare prices and book a wide range of travel-related services. These services include domestic and international air ticketing on nearly all Indian and international airlines, as well as bus ticketing, rail ticketing, cab bookings and ancillary services within India. With approximately 81,500 hotels and homestays in approximately 1,550 cities and towns in India as well as more than 2.9 million hotels around the world, Yatra India has the largest hotels inventory amongst key Indian OTA players.
Forward-Looking Statements
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Important Information for Investors and Shareholders
This press release does not constitute an offer to buy or a solicitation of an offer to sell any securities. The Company has filed a solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9 with the SEC (available here). Any solicitation/recommendation statement filed by the Company that is required to be mailed to shareholders will be mailed to shareholders. THE COMPANY’S INVESTORS AND SHAREHOLDERS ARE STRONGLY ENCOURAGED TO READ THE COMPANY’S SOLICITATION/RECOMMENDATION STATEMENT (INCLUDING ANY AMENDMENTS OR SUPPLEMENTS THERETO) AND ALL OTHER DOCUMENTS FILED WITH THE SEC CAREFULLY AND IN THEIR ENTIRETY WHEN THEY BECOME AVAILABLE BECAUSE THEY WILL CONTAIN IMPORTANT INFORMATION. Investors and shareholders may obtain a copy of the solicitation/recommendation statement on Schedule 14D-9, any amendments or supplements thereto and other documents filed by the Company with the SEC at no charge at the SEC’s website at www.sec.gov. Copies will also be available at no charge by clicking the “SEC Filings” link in the “Financial Information” section of the Company’s website, https://investors.yatra.com, or by contacting ir@yatra.com as soon as reasonably practicable after such materials are electronically filed with, or furnished to, the SEC.
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