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Is Mercury tilting at windmills?

Analysis: Is paying a premium for a minority stake ever justified?

Mon, 25 Jun 2018

Shoeshine has seen a few stupid investment decisions in her time and paying a premium for a minority stake is almost always a mistake.

Consider just a couple so far this century where the acquirer at least bought themselves a seat at the board table.

Early in the century, Telecom, now Spark,

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