HONG KONG (Reuters) - A consortium comprising China's CITIC Capital and Singapore state investor Temasek Holdings
An announcement is expected in the next few hours, the people said, putting an end to a 16-month process that started with CITIC Capital making its first offer to buy the China-based software and IT company.
The final offer is expected to be $12 per share, 2.8 percent above Asiainfo's last traded price of $11.68 on Friday.
The price would be the same as CITIC Capital's initial bid in January 2012.
Citic Capital and Asiainfo-Linkage did not respond to phone calls after business hours requesting comment on the takeover bid.
(Reporting by Prakash Chakravarti of IFR/LPC, Jacqueline Poh of Basis Point and Denny Thomas; Additional reporting by Elzio Barreto; Editing by Greg Mahlich)