UPDATE 1-D.Boerse says 82 pct of holders backed NYSE deal

Fri Jul 15, 2011 2:43pm EDT

* German exchange provides final count of share tender

* Blockbuster deal must now survive antitrust reviews

NEW YORK, July 14 (Reuters) - Some 82.4 percent of Deutsche Boerse AG (DB1Gn.DE) shareholders backed its $9 billion merger with NYSE Euronext (NYX.N), according to a final count, the German exchange operator said on Friday.

On Thursday, preliminary results showed Deutsche Boerse received more than the needed 75 percent support from investors. NYSE Euronext shareholders backed the deal last week. [ID:nLDE76D174]

Shareholders who did not tender shares under the deal, which would see the Frankfurt exchange acquire the Big Board parent, now have until Aug. 1 to do so, Deutsche Boerse said.

The deal, billed as a merger of equals partly because NYSE Euronext Chief Executive Duncan Niederauer would be CEO of the combined company, would nonetheless give the German bourse 10 of 17 directors and its shareholders 60 percent of the yet-to-be-named Dutch holding company.

More hurdles are ahead in the form of a thorny European Commission antitrust review that could run through the rest of the year, as well as needed approvals from national regulators in Europe and the United States. (Reporting by Jonathan Spicer, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)

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