E.ON to squeeze out Innogy minorities if offer successful -CFO

FRANKFURT, April 27 (Reuters) - German utility E.ON is planning to squeeze out minority shareholders if its takeover offer for peer Innogy is successful, Chief (Taiwan OTC: 3345.TWO - news) Financial Officer Marc Spieker told Reuters.

E.ON earlier on Friday published a 5.2 billion euro ($6.28 billion) takeover offer for a minority stake in German energy group Innogy. It had already agreed to buy a 77 percent Innogy stake as part of a plan to break up the RWE (Amsterdam: RW6.AS - news) subsidiary.

The proposed transaction comes just two years after RWE (IOB: 0FUZ.IL - news) spun off its renewable, retail and network operations to form Innogy.

While E.ON is hoping to attract large interest for its offer, it will not hike its offer to sweeten the deal, Spieker said.

"With (Other OTC: WWTH - news) the Innogy shares from RWE we already have what we need for our plans," he added. (Reporting by Tom Käckenhoff Writing by Arno Schuetze Editing by Tom Sims)