Two years ago, when Glencore Plc proposed an unsolicited, $23 billion takeover of Teck Resources Ltd., the Canadian miner’s founder decisively rejected the idea. “Now is not the time,” Norman Keevil Jr. said back then.
Fast forward to 2025, and the 87-year-old Keevil is one of the chief proponents of a mammoth deal to combine Teck with London-based Anglo American Plc. The merger would create a roughly $60 billion company and one of the world’s top copper producers. But both companies describe it as a zero premium deal, in contrast to Glencore’s proposal, which initially offered a 20% takeover premium.