One Foot On The Dock: Why Breaking Up Shell May Be Just The Beginning

  • Date: 30-Oct-2021
  • Source: Forbes
  • Sector:Oil & Gas
  • Country:Gulf
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One Foot On The Dock: Why Breaking Up Shell May Be Just The Beginning

LONDON - JUNE 14: Closed fuel pumps signs are displayed at a Shell petrol station on June 14, 2008 ... [+] in Bayswater, London. Fuel tanker drivers continue to strike over pay and condidtions with supplies to Shell petrol stations beginning to run out in some places. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

Activist investor Dan Loeb made headlines this week with his move (through his Third Point LLP) to take a stake in Royal Dutch Shell and then argue that it should be broken up into two entities.