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Case Study 13–4. Cerberus Capital Management Acquires Chrysler Corporation

1. What were the motivations for this deal from Cerberus’s perspective? From Daimler’s perspective?

2. What are the risks to this deal’s eventual success? Be specific.

3. Cite examples of potential economies of scale and scope.

4. Cerberus and Daimler would own 80.1 percent and 19.9 percent of Chrysler

Holdings LLC, respectively. Why do you think the two parties agreed to this distribution of ownership?

5. Which of the leading explanations of why deals often fail to meet expectations (i. e., tendency to overpay, slow integration, and bad business plan) best explains why the combination of Daimler and Chrysler failed? Explain your answer.

6. The new company, Chrysler Holdings, is a limited liability company. Why do you think Cerberus chose this legal structure over a more conventional corporate structure?

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