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# Canadian Pacific to acquire Kansas City Southern in $25 billion freight-rail deal

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Canadian Pacific to acquire Kansas City Southern in billion freight-rail deal

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Canadian Pacific to acquire Kansas City Southern in $25 billion freight-rail deal
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Deal values Kansas City Southern at $275 a share in a combination of cash and stock — a 23% premium from Friday’s closing level

Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. agreed to acquire Kansas City Southern in a merger valued at about $25 billion that would create the first freight-rail network linking Mexico, the U.S. and Canada.

The companies said Sunday their boards agreed to a deal that values Kansas City at $275 a share in a combination of cash and stock. Kansas City investors will receive 0.489 of a Canadian Pacific share
CP,
-1.37%

CP,
-1.36%
and $90 in cash for each Kansas City KSU common share held.

If approved by regulators, the deal would unite two of the major North American freight carriers, linking factories and ports in Mexico, farms and plants in the midwestern U.S. and Canada’s ocean ports and energy resources.

The combined company would have about $8.7 billion in annual revenue and employ nearly 20,000 people.

Kansas City Southern is the smallest of the five major freight railroads in the U.S. but plays a key role in U.S.-Mexico trade.

An expanded version of this report appears at WSJ.com.

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