DCC Energy accepts £5.75B bid; offer totals up to 6,797.22p/share

£5.75B is the headline equity value in DCC Energy’s recommended acquisition by Dragon Bidco, a vehicle backed by Energy Capital Partners and KKR. The RNS announcement sets a base cash consideration of 6,525 pence per DCC Energy share, plus a proposed final dividend of 147.22 pence and up to 125 pence of additional consideration if the Nexora technology business is sold on qualifying terms.

The total offer value reaches 6,797.22 pence per share when all three components are included. For a finance reader, the market-moving point is not only the size of the bid, but the structure: cash certainty now, a dividend already proposed, and a contingent payment connected to an asset sale that remains outside the core energy platform.

DCC Energy said the board intends to recommend the scheme unanimously. The announcement frames the decision against the company’s 2030 ambition, which requires roughly £275M of additional operating-profit growth from FY26 to FY30. The board says about £115M of that remaining growth would need to come organically and about £160M from acquisition-led growth, leaving execution risk in both demand and deal pricing.

The acquirers are targeting a business that has already simplified itself through the disposals of DCC Healthcare and InfoTech, while the Nexora sale process is still progressing. That makes the transaction another large take-private proposal in the UK-listed universe, above the finance-crawler threshold for M&A and material for investors tracking public-market exits.

The next checkpoint is shareholder approval under the scheme timetable and any update on the Nexora disposal, because that determines whether the 125 pence contingent payment is available in full.

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