This website provides interested readers with additional materials on the paper "How Preussag became TUI: Kissing too many toads can make you a toad" by Ingolf Dittmann, Ernst Maug and Christoph Schneider. The study received the Outstanding Paper Award 2005 from the German Finance Association (DGF) and won the third price in the JFE - ECGI Clinical Paper Competition. It also triggered a discussion in the business press. Capital (10/2005, April 27, 2005), boerse.ARD.de (April 25, 2005), Handelsblatt (May 10, 2005; September 28, 2007; October 30, 2007; March 7, 2008), Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (October 22, 2006; December 10, 2006), FAZ.NET (December 15, 2006), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (December 28, 2006), €URO (05/2008, April 23, 2008) and Financial Times Deutschland (May 7, 2008) reported on this study dealing with the restructuring of Preussag into TUI. The press mentioned a number of counterarguments from TUI’s management. You find our comments on these arguments here (only available in German).

Paper
The latest working paper version can be downloaded from SSRN. An abridged version of the paper is published in Financial Management (Autumn 2008), under the title "How Preussag became TUI: A Clinical Study of Institutional Blockholders and Restructuring in Europe."

FAQs
Here you can find the frequently asked questions document about our paper "How Preussag became TUI" (only available in German).

Links
http://www.gegenantrag.net/
http://www.ecgi.de/clinical/