The fear and loathing generated by Krupp’s attempted takeover of Thyssen, a rival German steel company, has not only thwarted that particular deal but also put back the entire German M&A business by several years.
No sooner had Krupp’s plan to take over its rival and create one large steel company in the Ruhr been leaked last month than Thyssen cried fraud and the term feindliches Angebot (hostile takeover) replaced “shareholder value” as the phrase of the moment in German business thought.
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