COMPANIES General Motors’ sale of Opel, already running behind schedule, is likely to take several more weeks to conclude because of continuing disagreements with Magna International, the bidder favoured by most of Germany’s political establishment.
GM and Magna are again meeting this week in an effort to work out deep remaining differences over the carmaker’s Russian business and future access to its global intellectual property for Magna, and its Russian bidding partner, Sberbank.
