While i don’t want to discuss the economic advantage or disadvantage of the K-Dow i don’t have the right numbers to analyze which i hope was done by the people signing it in the first place , but here are some stuff that i see people keep repeating which aren’t true<\/p>\n
Not True , a lot of Deals have a penalty for canceling , they add it to make sure you serious about it <\/p>\n Almost two-thirds of the merger agreements announced between 1997 and 1999 from paper published on Termination fees in mergers and acquisitions<\/a><\/p>\n an example of Fee if you walk away from a merger <\/p>\n The commodities trading giant Glencore will be forced to hand over nearly \u00a3300m to the FTSE 100 miner Xstrata, should it walk away from the \u00a350bn merger as a result of shareholder pressure<\/p><\/blockquote>\n glencore <\/a><\/p>\n – That a 2 billion dollar is the highest penalty ever !<\/strong><\/p>\n AT&T penalty was worth 4 billion , 3 of it in cash , so that doesn’t make K-Dow the highest<\/p>\n AT&T agreed to pay 3 billion cash and 1 billion worth of spectrum if the deal fell<\/p><\/blockquote>\n AT&T and T-mobile merger<\/a><\/p>\n – 2.5 billion for a 17 billion deal is too much<\/strong> The Source of the 17 Billion figure<\/a><\/p>\n Further reads While i don’t want to discuss the economic advantage or disadvantage of the K-Dow i don’t have the right numbers to analyze which i hope was done by the people signing it in the first place , but here are some stuff that i see people keep repeating which aren’t true -No other deal had … Continue reading Lies About K-Dow and other Points [English]<\/span>
\n-No other deal had a penalty for canceling the deal
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\nincluded a target termination fee clause. A target termination, or breakup, fee clause
\nrequires that the target pay the bidder a \ufb01xed cash fee if the target does not
\nconsummate the proposed merger<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
\nactually , that is a 14% ( 2.5 out of 17 ) , while the AT&T deal was 10% ( 4 billion out of 39 ) , very close if you ask me , and we ended up paying 2.1 billion aka 12% <\/p>\n
\n Wikipedia article on AT&T T-Mobile deal<\/a>
\nWikipedia Article on K-dow<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"