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Origin Energy's (ORG) investors have rejected a $10.6 billion Brookfield-led consortium's bid for Australia's largest power retailer at a shareholder meeting on Monday.
The proxy votes were 31.07% against the bid with 66.97% in favour, a slide shown to investors at meeting in Sydney showed, failing to reach the 75% threshold required for a takeover to proceed.
A final result will be known later on Monday. The deal was expected to fail after Origin's largest shareholder A$300 billion ($198 billion) pension fund AustralianSuper said it would reject the A$9.39 per share offer.
AustralianSuper owns about 17% of Origin, which was enough to block the bid that required at least 75% support from the votes cast.
Origin's board on Thursday rejected an alternative proposal lodged last week from the consortium to be considered if the current offer failed.