Investors target German companies

Companies such as Bayer, Lufthansa, and Volkswagen are said to be among up to a third of German blue-chip firms targeted for acquisition by private equity companies in the US and UK.

These equity firms are reportedly ready to propose joint deals in a German market that has seen foreign influence grow from nearly none to quickly growing in the past fifteen years.

One reason that German companies make good targets for such acquisitions is that many of them are underperforming at the present time.

An interesting aspect of these acquisition rumors is that these private equity companies seem to be thinking about going against the conventional wisdom and buying minority portions of some companies rather than aiming for outright takeover in all cases.

On expert is quoted as saying that he could easily imagine two or three private equity companies teaming up to take a German company private.

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