Alstom said the price for the deal was established at 5.5 billion euros ($6.7 billion), at the bottom of a range of 5.5-5.9 billion euros indicated previously.

Last year, Alstom secured European Union antitrust approval to acquire Bombardier's rail business, in an acquisition aimed at making Alstom the world's second-largest rail maker after China's CRRC Corp.

(Reporting by Sudip Kar-Gupta; editing by Jason Neely)