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Last week it emerged that BAE Systems, Europe’s biggest defence firm, and EADS, the owner of Airbus and a smaller defence busine
Last week it emerged that BAE Systems, Europe’s biggest defence firm, and EADS, the owner of Airbus and a smaller defence busine
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2017-04-07
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Last week it emerged that BAE Systems, Europe’s biggest defence firm, and EADS, the owner of Airbus and a smaller defence business, were mooting a £38 billion ($50 billion) merger. This week the buzz behind closed doors concerned a single question: will governments allow it?
The business case is straightforward. BAE is ailing. Despite successfully gambling on becoming a big gun in America nearly a decade ago, the slump in defence spending on both sides of the Atlantic had forced it to consider new options. Its tentative advances to Rolls-Royce were rebuffed.【C1】______
At any other time, the obstacles to a deal—differences over valuation, clashing personalities and the politicised shareholding structure of EADS—might still have seemed insurmountable. But valuation has become less of an issue. BAE’s price/earnings ratio fell by nearly a third in the 18 months before merger rumours began this summer. Pessimism about the firm’s prospects deepened, too.
Politics and personalities have grown easier. 【C2】______. He has also maintained close relationships at BAE, particularly with its boss, Ian King.
The defeat of France’s president, Nicolas Sarkozy, in May helped, too. Mr. Sarkozy was chummy with Serge Dassault, the owner of Dassault Aviation, a rival maker of jets. He would never have allowed a marriage that could hurt Dassault. 【C3】______.
Yet uniting the two firms will not be easy. The governments of at least four countries must agree: France, Germany, Britain and America. 【C4】______. A big defence firm like the merged BAE/EADS will have to assure its customers (governments) that vital intelligence is ring-fenced and cannot leak from one part of the business to another. Nor can it be acquired by an unsuitable buyer.
Satisfying these conditions will be so tricky that some analysts think the deal will founder.【C5】______
Rivals such as Boeing and Lockheed are sure to lobby against the merger, since it would create a competitor with bigger global sales than their own. However, the American government should welcome the emergence of a gigantic European contractor, says a defence executive. It could help Europe to do more for its own defence and spend its money more efficiently (i.e. , less nationalistically).
More detail about both the commercial logic of combining BAE and EADS and how the overlapping political circles are to be squared will emerge after October 10th. That is when the two firms are obliged, under Britain’s rules for mergers, to say whether or not they are going ahead. Both firms are determined to make it work, but it will be their governments that decide.
[A] BAE’s institutional shareholders will not back any proposal that leaves them with 40% of a company that does not have a normal governance structure.
[B] In May Tom Enders, a German who had run Airbus since 2007, became the chief executive of EADS. Mr. Enders has long wanted to turn EADS into a "normal" firm untainted by political influence.
[C] The new President, Frangois Hollande, has given Mr. Enders a green light to explore a deal.
[D] Both Lagardere and Daimler would welcome a chance to sell their stakes. The French government has indicated it might hang on to its shares, but accept being diluted to 9%.
[E] EADS, with orders for the civil jets made by Airbus booming and little overlap in its military business, looked alluring.
[F] For example, it will be tough to provide the security guarantees that American lawmakers will demand so long as the French and German governments retain influence over the combined entity.
[G] Both Mr. Enders and Dick Olver, BAE’s chairman, are confident that they will prevail. It is not clear what will happen to the French and German stakes in EADS.
【C4】
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答案
A
解析
根据本题所在段落第二句话可知,法、德、英、美等四国政府如有任何一方不同意,并购方案就无法实行。而根据背景知识,文中提到的BAE system,其全称是British Aerospace System(即:英国宇航防务系统集团),当然隶属于英国。而[A]明确说明英航机构股东是不会同意持有一家无正规管理结构的公司40%股份的。因此[A]与上一句话有直接的顺承关系,故为答案。
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