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The
deal, which is likely to face intense regulatory scrutiny,
allows the new company - to be called DowDuPont - to rejig
assets based on their diverging fortunes.
The planned split would create companies focused on agriculture,
materials and specialty products.
Dow and DuPont shareholders will each own about 50 percent of
DowDuPont.
DuPont Chief Executive Ed Breen will be CEO of the new company,
while Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris will be executive
chairman.
"This transaction is a game-changer for our industry and
reflects the culmination of a vision we have had for more than a
decade to bring together these two powerful innovation and
material science leaders," Liveris said in a statement.
Dow Chemical shareholders will get one DowDuPont share for each
Dow Chemical share they hold, while DuPont shareholders will get
1.282 shares in DowDuPont for each DuPont share they own.
DuPont shares were down about 4 percent at $71.60 in premarket
trading on Friday, while Dow shares were up 1.6 percent at
$55.77.
(Reporting by Swetha Gopinath in Bengaluru; Editing by Ted Kerr)
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