At first glance, Elliott Investment Management appears to have an insurmountable disadvantage in its campaign to block the business group behind Toyota Motor from buying out a key unit in one of 91AV原创 largest take-private deals of all time.
After all, the group already owns about 48% of Toyota Industries, and holds deep ties with many of the buyout target’s top minority shareholders. Meanwhile, the U.S. activist fund only has a 6.7% stake — a far cry from what’s needed to scuttle what it describes as a lowball offer before the tender period closes on Feb. 12.
So Toyota may look closer to the two-thirds majority required to push through the deal than the 33% of eligible shares Elliott needs to block it, but a closer look indicates billionaire Paul Singer’s fund may not be so far from pulling it off.
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