The Story That Won't Go Away

hone eagle wrote:

mich800 wrote:

hone eagle wrote:
This has gone off track a bit , quality is not a factor here in fact the difference between best and last is minute.
This will boil down to a NY bankers payday,if a big check is in there it will happen. The fact that it maybe a bad marriage and will fall apart in 10 years does not matter, the bankers will be long gone on to the next 'deal'.

I hope you do not truly believe that. There may or may not be a merger or joint venture. But it is solely the decision of company management, the boards, and shareholders. The investment bank firms I am sure would love to make the M&A fees but they are NOT going to "convince" two different companies against their wills to do a deal. That is like blaming all of Chrysler's woos on the different failed buyouts, mergers, etc. At some point management needs to put on their big boy pants and take responsibility. Don't get me wrong, I hope and feel Chrysler will succeed. I am just getting tired of the blame everyone else but themselves for their financial issues.

GM discussion boards are convinced a hostile take over is possible ,the board or CEO have absolutely no say.
A majority shareholder (say 20%) is all it takes ,and no cash is involved -stock is swapped - the bankers take home a big commission and its done.

Do you really think it is that easy? So you think some large shareholder from FCA is going to swap with some large sharholder of GM to get a large voting share? Someone still needs to own those shares and that costs money. Or are you saying there is a, as you say a 20% owner already in place at GM that is ready to merge?