Vulnerable to Attack: German Companies Fear Wave of Hostile Takeovers
2:00pm GMT, Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Countries like France and Spain go to great lengths to stop foreign companies buying up their national champions. But Germany’s takeover laws make it easy for firms in other countries to launch hostile takeovers of healthy German companies. And the government isn’t planning to do anything to change that.
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