RE: Chinese involvement7 May 2017 18:12
Some interesting suggestions. I agree that something is not typical at all here. Whatever it is, the Sepura board must be at least aware. But I don't believe they are deliberately trying to sabotage the deal, they simply cannot beckon such action from the public interest bodies in UK and Germany.
It is more the timings of the reviews which is suspect rather than the fact that they are taking place. Either the Brits and Germans are acting antagonistically, or in concert with each other. Considering tensions with Brexit and competing interests, my guess is the former. If there was a genuine public interest basis of concern, they would not be using delaying tactics to try to sink the deal but on the contrary moving ahead sooner rather than later.
If the company were so important to national interests, the UK government would not be setting it to sink by their own volition one way or the other. I think they were at first simply cautiously waiting for the outcome from the Germans, who now have been prompted to reciprocate.
This is all speculative, next week may hopefully shed some more light