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  • Essay / The privatization of the Anatolian National Telekom simulation

    It seems that we will have a very active and dynamic day which will be our opportunity to apply what we have learned through this course. The simulation material shows that we will have a difficult and sensitive simulated negotiation meeting that is almost real. The materials include all the important details to make it useful and practical. Unlike previous exercises, the parties here should be concerned with various issues and factors at the same time and the lessons learned from this exercise will come from different areas. My team and I will represent Boston Opportunities Worldwide, “BOW”. Our goal is to get no more than 10% ANT. We will therefore try to find a partner who is willing and able to obtain the remaining 10%. I will suggest Nagoya Life Insurance Company “NALI” to my team as the best potential partner. I will do this because NALI's investment management policy is similar to ours. They want separation of owners and managers and let managers do their jobs with little interference from above. NALI has also established itself in the Middle East and Istanbul, which represents a safer investment. EUTEL's ambitions regarding ANT could pose some problems for ANT's current senior management. This could harm and slow down ANT's ability to transform and grow with Turkey. For this, it would be better to have NALI as a partner rather than EUTEL. However, this does not mean that EUTEL is not an option for us. EUTEL knows the telecommunications industry better than NALI and its history indicates that it could be a very active investment partner. Furthermore, their ambitions regarding the ANT should not cause conflicts in the short term, which is our planned period, but in the long term. Additionally, we can include some terms that may prevent the end of the paper...... from various public policy concerns such as providing basic telecommunications services to all Turks regardless of where they live and the provision of jobs. . We will try to do this while we are still able to prevent the government from excessively intervening in the long-term strategy of the ANT. After convincing TAD, we should inform CORA and ANT of what we have done and ask them for their opinion. If they request minor or even notable changes that are within our boundaries, we will make them. I called it a flexible strategy because we won't have any specific terms or conditions that need to be included, except one. The price of our offer will depend on the outcome of the meetings, in particular the TAD meeting, and the assurances we obtain. Our only red line will be a condition limiting ANT's ability to spend more than $20 million on any project without BOW's review and consent..