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The tie-up between Lasmo and Monument, announced last week, should teach us all that takeovers may be great fun for corporate financiers and companies doing the taking over.
In each of these cases the third party Actor doing the taking over is either "my mum's boyfriend" or "they" (referring to an unspecified group of people into which 'mum's boyfriend' would fit).
Even allowing for Anglo's recent lackluster share performance and potential cost savings in the combined businesses, and assuming that Anglo's shareholders could capture all that value, a merger of equals would be a giveaway, with Xstrata doing the taking.
Clearly, taking elephants from the wild is a more fraught situation that the people doing the taking ever consider.
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