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Bertille Bayart: "Veolia-Suez: knowing how to end a war"

2021-04-13T18:49:53.421Z


CHRONICLE - After several months of battle, the calendar has done its work. The moment for diplomacy had come, the belligerents have curiously chosen their mediator in the person of the former boss of Engie and Suez, Gérard Mestrallet.


It is done.

After nearly eight months of battle, the takeover of Suez by its competitor Veolia is no longer a hostile operation.

Now approved by Suez's board of directors, the offer is said, in business terms, to be friendly.

The brutality of the fight, the violence of the invectives, the quantity of legal actions between these two groups of the CAC 40 which have taken the press, the place, the investors and the State to witness their reciprocal detestation since the end of August can make it improbable this change in the state of their relations after a single weekend of negotiations.

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How Veolia managed to get its hands on Suez

But there.

We must remember Cyrano de Bergerac.

Let the tone be aggressive - 

"Me, sir, if I had such a nose, I would have to amputate it right away!"

 - or friendly - 

"But it must soak in your cup: To drink, have a hanap made!"

 -, he described one and the same reality: the size of his nose.

In the bedside books of investment bankers, we

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Source: lefigaro

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