Study Group: Chemical Industry Experts in GLG Member Programs (EU)(?)

Is the proposed $19 Billion purchase of R&H by Dow is starting to raise questions in the minds of some regulators? Could this lead to the forced divestiture of certain business activities and assets? If this happens would it breach Dow's limit on divestiture level stated in the bid documents?

The example is typically synonymous for a post-merger change process and one of the most common pitfalls. However, cultural incompatibility is a catch phase and to generetic. The issue demonstrates that  more variables are effecting the problem starting with: communication, leadership, psychological...

First, Dow moved its upstream chemical businesses into a JV with the Kuwaitis, to protect itself against increasing feedstock prices.  Now it is acquiring Rohm & Haas to position itself as a downstream 'solution provider'.  Some may see this as a high-risk strategy.  But the real...

Private equity has been very active in chemicals M&A, accounting for 50% of all deals in 2006.  Now the chemicals downturn has finally arrived.  Ineos Group, the UK’s biggest private company and one of the world’s biggest chemical producers, has been listed as one of the six most vulnerable...

Ineos’ 200,000bpd Grangemouth refinery in Scotland is on strike today and tomorrow, over a pension dispute. Some financial analysts suggest the overall cost to INEOS could amount to $60m.  And further strikes may well occur. At the same time, INEOS's owner falls 15 places in the UK's Rich List ...