Elliott's Telekom Gambit Puts a €70bn Activist Against Bonn's US Merger Ambitions

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    "title": "Elliott's Telekom Gambit Puts a €70bn Activist Against Bonn's US Merger Ambitions - AD HOC NEWS",
    "contact": "Christian Illek",
    "excerpt": "The arithmetic of Deutsche Telekom's valuation has long frustrated its shareholders: the sum of the group's parts - above all its prized stake in T-Mobile US - consistently outweighs what the market is willing to pay for the whole. Now a heavyweight activist investor is betting it can force that gap shut, and the resulting tug-of-war with management is reshaping the strategic debate around Europe's largest telecom operator. Elliott Investment Management, which oversees roughly €70 billion in assets, has built a stake in the Bonn-based group and is publicly pushing back against plans for a full merger with T-Mobile US, according to Bloomberg. Rather than pursue a transaction that would consolidate the American subsidiary in which the parent holds around 53 to 54 percent, Elliott is pressing the case for share buybacks - a classic activist lever aimed at closing the so-called holding discount that has left the group's market value trailing the worth of its individual businesses. The intervention lands at a delicate moment for the company's leadership. Chief Executive Tim Höttges has championed the US merger since at least April, viewing full control of T-Mobile US as a route to strategic scale. But the activist's arrival adds pressure from a different flank than the one that emerged over the summer, when T-Mobile US executives reportedly signalled they no longer backed the...",
    "summary": "Christian Illek will be succeeded as finance chief of Deutsche Telekom by Dhananjay Mirchandani.",
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