Friday, October 19, 2007

Melco PBL Entertainment Plans to Offer Shares in U.S. (Update 1)

2007-10-18 14:27 (New York)

By Charles W. Stevens

Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Melco PBL Entertainment (Macau)
Ltd., a casino venture between Lawrence Ho and Australian
billionaire James Packer, plans to raise as much as $800 million
in an offering of American depositary shares.

Proceeds from the sale will be used for its Macau Peninsula
project, the Hong Kong-based company said today in a Securities
and Exchange Commission filing.

Each share will represent three ordinary shares and trade
on the Nasdaq Global Market, Melco said.

Melco operates the Crown Macau Hotel Casino.

--Editor: Stevens (cmm)

To contact the reporter on this story:
Charles W. Stevens in New York +1-212-617-2652 or
cstevens@bloomberg.net.

To contact the editor responsible for this story:
Michael Nol at +1-212-617-2384 or mnol@bloomberg.net.

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