CHAPTER 5 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS — MORE IMPORTANT THAN EXPLORATION?
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(Apr 1999)
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS — MORE IMPORTANT THAN EXPLORATION?
Raw Materials Group
Stockholm, Sweden
January 1999
1998 — A RECORD YEAR
Over 25 billion USD (25,000 MUSD) were spent on mergers & acquisitions (M&A) in the metals mining and refining industry world wide in 1998. This is the second consecutive year of strong growth in M&A activity in the mining sector. Up from 12 billion in 1996 to 19 billion in 1997. Preliminary figures from Raw Materials Group of Stockholm's "RMG Annual M&A Survey" show a slow down in the second half of 1998 but still a record breaking year 1998 (Table 1).
Table 1. Mergers & acquisitions in the mining industry 1995 — 1998
Year | Volume (billion USD) |
1995 | 16.5 |
1996 | 12.4 |
1997 | 18.7 |
1998 | 25.9 |
Sources:
Who Owns Who in Mining 1998
Raw Materials Data
This increase in M&A activity becomes even more significant when compared to the decline in exploration expenditure expected for 1998. In 1998 exploration expenditure world wide are estimated to be in the order of magnitude of 4-5 billion USD falling by some 30-40 percent. Mergers and acquisitions have become the most favoured way of growth and expansion in the mining industry.
There is a number of major reasons for this continued frenzy:
• Low metal prices and the concomitant low share values make it relatively cheap to buy operating companies and mines.
• The economic downturn in the industry in general further necessitates a restructuring to restore profitability.
• The political and economic changes in South Africa are finally affecting also the structure of the domestic mining industry in its foundations.
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• Privatisations continue, albeit at a lower level than earlier.
• Exploration, the alternative to M&As was partly discredited in the Busang scam.
• The general, industry wide, globalisation trend.
The largest deals in 1998 include:
• Anglo American Corporation of South Africa, the largest mining group of the world, simplifying, reshuffling and streamlining its basic structure, by taking over its group partner Minorco and minorities' interests. These deals, albeit involving not only mining and smelting interests, are valued at over 4.1 billion USD, making it the only rival to the previously largest deal: RTZ merging with CRA in 1996 in a 4 billion USD transaction.
• Alcoa taking over its aluminium competitor Alumax for 3 800 MUSD in early...
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- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1 DISCUSSION HYPOTHETICAL
- STRUCTURING THE DEAL
- DILUTION AS A REMEDY FOR A DEFAULT BY A SHAREHOLDER
- STRUCTURING JOINT VENTURES
- SECURING TITLE OVER MINING RIGHTS IN CHILE DURING "EARN-IN" PHASE
- CHAPTER 3 USING AN OFFSHORE TAX ENTITY IN THE DEAL
- CHAPTER 4 MINE FINANCING IN DIFFICULT TIMES: A REVIEW OF CURRENT GLOBAL TRENDS
- CHAPTER 5 MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS — MORE IMPORTANT THAN EXPLORATION?
- CURRENT STATUS OF THE WORLD RESOURCE INDUSTRIES
- WHAT TO DO WHEN THE PHONE RINGS A POST-CRISIS CHECKLIST FOR THE INTERNATIONAL LITIGATOR
- WHAT TO DO WHEN THE PHONE RINGS — CRISIS MANAGEMENT
- CHAPTER 7 MASS TORT RISKS INHERENT IN INTERNATIONAL NATURAL RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT
- TORTS, NATURAL RESOURCES, AND INTERNATIONAL LAW
- CHAPTER 8 TRENDS IN MANAGING POLITICAL RISK
- CHAPTER 9 SELECTION OF GOVERNING LAW
- PROCEDURAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES LITIGATION: A UNITED STATES PERSPECTIVE
- INTERNATIONAL ARBITRATION
- PROCEDURAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES LITIGATION: THE ENGLISH LAW PERSPECTIVE
- PROCEDURAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RESOURCE LITIGATION: PROOF OF FOREIGN LAW
- PROCEDURAL ISSUES IN INTERNATIONAL RESOURCES LITIGATION
- GLOBAL STAKEHOLDERS: THE IMPACT OF INTERNATIONAL LAW ON THE RESOURCES INDUSTRY
- THE ROYAL COMMISSION REPORT ON ABORIGINAL PEOPLES: CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR CORPORATE CANADA
- GLOBAL STAKEHOLDERS: THE INFLUENCE OF NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANISATIONS ON PROJECT DEVELOPMENT
- CHAPTER 12 TRANSBORDER INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS: CPC PIPELINE, A CASE STUDY
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