FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen (>> Volkswagen AG) aims to raise up to 2 billion euros ($2.72 billion) by issuing new preference shares in an accelerated book building placement to institutional investors, it said on Tuesday.

The issue will help pay for VW's 6.7 billion euro takeover offer to shareholders of Swedish truckmaker Scania (>> Scania AB), VW said in a statement.

The new shares will carry dividend rights from Jan. 1, 2014, VW said, adding that a consortium consisting of Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan would underwrite the issue and place it with German and foreign institutional investors.

($1 = 0.7349 Euros)

(Reporting by Jonathan Gould)