Financial Times | Acquiring companies throw in the towel on big German M&A

MKP comment in FT

“Acquiring companies have gone ‘this is just ridiculous’, and thrown the towel,” said Mark Kelly, chief executive of London-headquartered MKP Advisors. “The biggest issue is you don’t get much big German M&A any more, except in cases where buyers are willing to pay an outsized premium.”

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