The company plans to use the proceeds to acquire new vessels, as well as for general corporate purposes. Those acquisitions of vessels include vessels which Teekay Corp. (NYSE: TK) has offered or may offer for it to acquire. Teekay raised roughly $130 million in another secondary offering this year.
Teekay’s units had risen nearly 50% this year and the units closed at $29.11 today against a 52-week range of $16.89 to $29.94. In the after-hours reaction, those units were trading down nearly 5% around $27.70.
JON C. OGG