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Corporate Governance Germany WWW.ICGG.BIZ issue 02/2009 INSIGHT corporate governance germany Essential: Information, Analysis and Opinion for Investment Professionals, Advisers and Academics CONTENTS 02 COMPANIES 12 CAMPUS Commerzbank partly nationalized Executive liability in connection with subprime crisis BUHLMANN´S CORNER 04 14 CAPITAL NEWS Buying & Selling in January 06 Actions Corner 15 DIRECTORS´DEALINGS 07 AGM dates 17 INSIGHT SHAREHOLDER ID 08 POLITICS 37 EVENTS DIARY More investor protection 38 READING SUGGESTIONS 10 PEOPLE 39 INDEXES OF COMPANIES Allan leaves the Post AND PERSONS 01 INSIGHT corporate Governance Germany companies Commerzbank is partly nationalized Following the entry of the capital increase deci- of 1.5 billion euros gross will be due. In return ded in August 2008 in the commercial register, for the injection the State now holds a blocking Commerzbank has since 12 January been sole minority of 25 percent plus one share, as well as owner of Dresdner Bank. Blessing already took two Supervisory Board seats. To refinance its cre- over the tiller at the Allianz subsidiary on 19 Ja- dit business and underpin the Dresdner takeover, nuary. The two institutions are to be merged in Commerzbank also in January issued a State-gu- spring. Late last year Martin Blessing announced aranteed loan with a period of three years and that the takeover of competitor Dresdner Bank a volume of five billion euros. The government had been completed far more favourably – for is guaranteeing the interest and redemption pa- five billion euros instead of 9.8 billion – and yments. In autumn Blessing had already got a quickly than planned. In January the Commerz- capital injection of €8.2 billion and guarantees of bank CEO had also to seek further aid from the €15.2 billion. Dresdner’s parent Allianz is coming government’s support fund for banks (SoFFin), into the new institution with a silent contributi- to strengthen his bank’s capitalization. The fund on of €750 million, buying €1.1 billion of illiquid is supporting Commerzbank with a further ten securities from its subsidiary and for that getting billion euros and in return taking 295 million or- 14 percent of the merged bank. Critics see the dinary shares at a price of six euros each. With transaction as a state-subsidized merger of two an interest rate of nine percent, annual interest suffering banks. ISSUE 02/2009 02 INSIGHT corporate Governance Germany companies Schaeffler calls for help Deutsche Bank brings In early January the Schaeffler family group raised its share in tyre ma- government on board ker and automotive supplier Continental to 49.99 percent. Schaeffler has however now been offered around 90 percent. The remaining 40 percent The Deutsche Bank und Deutsche Post or so would according to an investor agreement have to be parked by the had already agreed in September that roller-bearing maker with banks for the next four years, for a holding Germany’s biggest credit institution would fee. Schaeffler had offered Conti shareholders €75 per share, thus paying take over Postbank, strong in private cus- some ten billion euros for the holding. The current share price is well tomer business, from the Bonn logistics below that. group. In January the two parties negoti- Both Conti and Schaeffler are now hit by debts of altogether 22 billion ated again and agreed a three-stage plan. euros. Schaeffler had secured loans with Conti paper that has lost value, In the first step, Deutsche Post gets an so the banks are putting on pressure. Conti is further burdened with its eight-percent share in Deutsche Bank for 2007 takeover of Siemens subsidiary VDO. A quick merger of the auto- a 22.9 percent block of Postbank shares. motive divisions of both groups would increase synergies. Conti’s ma- The transaction has a value of €1.1 billion. nagement fears, though, that Schaeffler might bring its debts in. Schaeff- Post CEO Appel indicated that he would ler in turn opposes including a third investor – e.g. Lower Saxony – since promptly sell the bank shares, by June; that would dilute its own shares. Selling the Conti tyre division would be until then the Post and thus indirectly the another way for the Hanover group to minimize its credit obligations. State becomes the biggest shareholder Anyway, there is conflict over the leadership of the joint division, or over in Deutsche Bank. In the second stage the leadership of Conti. Schaeffler is according to the agreement due four Deutsche Bank is to subscribe a compul- Supervisory Board posts at Conti. After CEO Manfred Wennemer alrea- sory-conversion bond worth €2.7 billion, dy had to quit his post, Schaeffler has now also torpedoed Supervisory to be converted after three years into Board chair Hubertus von Grünberg, who finally gave up that position 27.4 percent of the Postbank shares. For a to Schaeffler trusty Rolf Koerfer. Along with Maria-Elisabeth Schaeffler, payment of €1.1 billion in cash, in the last her son Georg and Jürgen Geissinger are now new Supervisory Board step Deutsche Bank will secure options entries. Conti CFO Alan Hippe is going to ThyssenKrupp at the end of on the remaining 12.1 percent of the February. Most recently, the Schaeffler group has been seeking State aid Postbank shares, exercisable between the from the government’s 100-billion fund. beginning of 2012 and 2013. ARQ_WEST_1/3 16.11.2007 11:32 Uhr Seite 2 When a detail makes the difference. Firm of the Year in the West Western. Southern. Far-Eastern Düsseldorf Munich Tokyo • www.arqis.com ISSUE 02/2009 03 INSIGHT corporate Governance Germany companies BUHLMANN´S CORNER Only cash is real … Everybody in Germany is talking about a Bad Bank. sessed and accounted remains a problem until all the Yet we thought it had been there since July 2007 handshake transactions have been completed. – the IKB. It was restructured with State cash of 15 billion – then “sold” for 0.18 billion. At the same Two Porsche men, driven by four shareholders, race time we put 100 billion into a Munich long-term fi- at sporting speed through the financial world, wan- nancier, which still has only 0.25 billion in stock-ex- ting “their” family firm Volkswagen back. Every time change value. This one, HypoRealEstate, had been they pass GO – or stop – they collect a bonus they founded by its parent HVB (HypoVereinsBank) earlier want to use to buy the car works in Wolfsburg. And as a bad bank and then “given” to its shareholders they earn in hours three times as many billions as in 2003. Germany’s elite looked after the bank and 12,000 hardworking Porsche fitters, turn over three tripled its stock-market va- times as much at the financial tables as in the sta- lue – even in the starry eyes tutory rules for shareholders – ordinary and prefe- of investing Americans. rence. The shareholders, who re- In 2007 at the AGM, VIP called on the perpetrator ally, they say, have the say, at least to give up the title of “member of the Cor- looked on and celebrated porate Governance Code Commission”. At the time their own fall in Dublin. It Wendelin Wiedeking, who was not feeling too well, is an amazing thing, pos- croaked that he “wasn’t dreaming of it”. In 2009 the sible probably only in the Hermes (London) representative called for the same financial world, to manage thing and didn’t even get a reaction from the man. to destroy more than one The shareholders, who were providing the capital, ever had. That’s just what anyway have no interest in a vote. The German finance Funke managed on the minister, who since October 2008 has the right to board of this bank – and no one blames him. No give instructions in every propped-up bank, stands up one? Not even one shareholder? Why not, actually? and unashamedly calls for nationalization. Yet he (all Chancellor Angela Merkel ought to be pleased any- alone and without any legal recourses) already has all way; at least she’s getting her share of this Greek gift the power. If shareholders do not look out, then soon – the bad bank. it’ll be Lafontaine nationalizing not just Continental but Global – without any cash, but it will be real. How was that again? Only in the financial world can you lose more than you ever had – just where, one might have thought, cash should be “in”. But it has Hans-Martin Buhlmann is the founder of proxy- to be just cash, not cash saddled with something. voting agency VIP Vereinigung Institutionelle Pri- How a cash-settled option is to be understood, as- vatanleger e.V. (www.vip-cg.com). YOUR FEEDBACK Have you any questions, criticisms or suggestions? Do you wish to subscribe to the Newsletter? We look forward to hearing from you: Please send a mail to : [email protected] [email protected] ISSUE 02/2009 04 INSIGHT corporate Governance Germany companies HeidelbergCement must lower its Even more billions for indebtedness Hypo Real Estate After the bad speculation in VW shares „We would greatly welcome it were and the death of Swabian business- the government to come in and ensure man Adolf Merckle in early January, the long-term continued existence of as agreed with the bank syndicate the Hypo Real Estate,” Axel Wieandt, CEO Merckle business empire, to which ge- of real-estate financier Hypo Real Estate nerics maker Ratiopharm, drugs who- (HRE) told Bild-Zeitung, pushing for na- lesaler Phoenix and building materials tionalization of the crisis-ridden MDAX company HeidelbergCement as well as institution. After government and snow-trail vehicle maker Kässbohrer banks had already rescued HRE from belong, is being restructured.
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