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Le U-turn

14 January 2020 By Christopher Thompson

The French IT services group has raised its offer to buy $4 bln Altran despite previously insisting it wouldn’t. CEO Paul Hermelin is hoping that swallowing his pride will get him what he wants. But a modest $140 million bump up is unlikely to placate the holdout U.S. activist.

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