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M&A
KKR invests $159 million for a 10% stake in Masan Consumer, in Vietnam’s largest private equity transaction to date.
By Sameera Anand | 14 April 2011
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Yageo founder Pierre Chen and KKR launch a deal to delist the Taiwanese electronic component maker, citing the need for greater financial flexibility.
By Sameera Anand | 7 April 2011
M&A
Minmetals announces plans to launch a takeover of Equinox Minerals to gain control of copper mines in Zambia and Saudi Arabia, in the largest hostile bid by a Chinese company ...
By Sameera Anand | 7 April 2011
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Richard Lewis and Fabien Simon from Societe Generale discuss M&A, acquisition finance and why China outbound M&A is poised to continue.
By Sameera Anand | 23 March 2011
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Nippon Life Insurance buys a 26% stake in Anil Ambani's life insurance company, paying $680 million to become a strategic investor in India's last independent life insurer.
By Sameera Anand | 16 March 2011
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Japanese firms continue on the M&A trail with Terumo entering a $2.6 billion deal to buy US blood-processing technologies company CaridianBCT from its Swedish owners.
By Sameera Anand | 8 March 2011
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Nippon Steel and Sumitomo Metal, two of Japan’s biggest steelmakers, have hired an army of investment banks to advise on their merger, but couldn’t find a seat for ...
By Nick Ferguson | 3 March 2011
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British Petroleum agrees to invest up to $20 billion in India in partnership with Reliance Industries. The deal catapults advisers Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley to the top ...
By Sameera Anand | 23 February 2011
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PetroChina becomes the latest Asian company to invest in oil sands, shelling out $5.4 billion in a joint venture with Canada's Encana.
By Sameera Anand | 11 February 2011
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Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing appoints Deutsche Bank to advise him on his bid for E.ON's UK power distribution assets, as Goldman Sachs is once again conflicted.
By Sameera Anand | 10 February 2011
M&A
Tencent acquires Riot Games, the creator of online game League of Legends, for around $400 million.
By Sameera Anand | 7 February 2011
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In its second deal with Chesapeake in less than six months, CNOOC agrees to pay up to $1.27 billion for a one-third interest in a shale-gas acreage in the US.
By Sameera Anand | 1 February 2011
M&A
The deal will catapult Lenovo to pole position in the Japanese PC market and give NEC up to $500 million of new capital.
By Sameera Anand | 31 January 2011
M&A
New York-based independent investment bank Moelis & Company acquires Richard Orders' firm Asia Pacific Advisers in a deal that sees Orders and his colleague Bert Grisel become ...
By Sameera Anand | 28 January 2011
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The world's largest spirits company buys a 23.6% stake in Hanoi Liquor Joint Stock Company (Halico) from VinaCapital's Vietnam Opportunity Fund for $51.6 million in cash.
By Lara Wozniak | 28 January 2011
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