The Lifetime movie starring FCA has reached the "dangerous stalker" phase, as the automaker and General Motors recruit advisors amid a merger standoff.
Despite GM and CEO Mary Barra both rebuffing FCA's and CEO Sergio Marchionne's attempts to consolidate the two automakers and their respective resources, the former has brought aboard Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley for advice in handling the latter's attempts to force the issue, Reuters reports. FCA is being advised by UBS, with help from Lazard via the automaker's founding Agnelli family.
For months, Marchionne has been beating the drum of consolidation, going as far as to recruit GM investors to force the automaker's board to meet FCA at the negotiation table. His reasoning amounts to reducing costs involved in developing platforms and technologies for new vehicles by spreading those costs throughout two or more merged parties.
However, for FCA to make GM theirs forever and always, sources close to the matter claim the automaker would need to pay $77 billion in an all-stock transaction, based on GM's shareholders demanding a 35 percent premium regarding market capitalization, as well as a significant payout on their shares.
The hostile takeover would put FCA under financial strain, as well. Its market value — most of which is linked to Ferrari, which is set to strike out on its own later this year — is around $57 billion, while capitalization is $20 billion, much smaller than GM's respective figures of $84 billion and $57 billion.
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