ATLANTA, Ga., March 26, 2010—Lodgian, Inc. (NYSE Amex Equities: LGN), one of the nation’s largest independent hotel owners and operators, today announced that RiskMetrics Group, Inc. (formerly Institutional Shareholder Services), a leading independent proxy advisory firm, recommends that Lodgian stockholders vote “FOR” Lodgian’s proposed merger with LSREF Lodging Investments, LLC (“LSREF”), an affiliate of Lone Star Funds.
As previously announced, under the terms of the merger agreement, LSREF will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of Lodgian for $2.50 per share in an all-cash transaction, which represents a premium of approximately 67.2 percent over Lodgian's average closing share price during the trading period of one calendar month prior to January 15, 2010 and 64.3 percent over Lodgian's average closing share price during the trading period of six calendar months prior to January 15, 2010.
The vote of Lodgian’s stockholders is very important regardless of the number of shares of common stock they own. Whether or not stockholders are able to attend the special meeting of the stockholders (the “Special Meeting”) in person, to ensure their votes are counted, stockholders are urged to vote by telephone or Internet as soon as possible.
If stockholders fail to return their proxy cards, fail to register their vote by telephone or Internet, fail to attend the Special Meeting and vote in person, or fail to instruct their broker on how to vote, it will have the same effect as a vote against approval of the merger and the merger agreement.
Contact:
Debi Neary Ethridge, Vice President, Finance & Investor Relations, (404) 365-2719. dethridge@lodgian.com
Jerry or Chris Daly, DalyGray Public Relations, jerry@dalygray.com
chris@dalygray.com
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