Word: mergerism
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...Obscured by the political hysteria is the fact that, according to U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) documents seen by TIME, CNOOC, not Chevron, was actually Unocal's first choice as a merger partner. Some beltway politicians would paint CNOOC, which is 70% state-owned, as an arm of a Communist government out to strip the U.S. of vital energy supplies. TIME's reporting on the genesis of CNOOC's Unocal bid?dubbed "Operation Treasure Ship" by the Chinese company's investment bankers?reveals a far more complicated reality. CNOOC is a flagship Chinese firm determined to emerge...
...downplays the initial discourse with Williamson, saying he was simply talking with someone his company had done business with in the past, and the topic of a possible merger came up only briefly. But the first time Chevron's CEO, David O'Reilly, spoke to Williamson about a possible merger?just weeks after Fu's conversation with Unocal in December?the Chevron chief was politely rebuffed, according to SEC documents. If Unocal was going to be sold, it appears that CNOOC had already been given first dibs...
...order for Unocal's board to approve it. O'Reilly did so, and with CNOOC suddenly sidelined, Chevron was in the driver's seat. Unocal's board in Los Angeles met into the wee hours on April 3. At 4:30 a.m., O'Reilly and Williamson signed a merger agreement...
...high-priced bankers and lobbyists, Fu did not appear to be prepared for what Schurtenberger had discussed at the board meeting in late March: the political firestorm the bid would provoke in the U.S. Fu, CNOOC sources say, was stunned by the June 30 Congressional resolution objecting to the merger. So was the Chinese government. One of Fu's advisers says Beijing, already sparring with Washington over the value of China's currency and U.S. quotas on Chinese-made textile imports, was not expecting a hornet's nest to be stirred...
...Unocal go? Fu said in an interview last week that his "board is determined to win this bid," a statement some interpreted as a sign that CNOOC will counter a higher Chevron offer. Unocal last week told CNOOC executives that its board might still be open to a merger with the Chinese company if CNOOC meets certain conditions, including shedding some of Unocal's American assets to appease political opponents worried about the loss of domestic U.S. reserves. Directors Courtis and Henkes have been pushing this idea for months, banking sources say, and Fu himself is considering...