Financing Strategies
China
In the face of increasing competition for listings from the mainland, Hong Kong appears to be shifting at least part of its attention away from IPOs and towards China's attempts to...
2010-03-10China
A tie-up between overseas buyout fund fund Carlyle Group , and China's largest privately-owned investment firm Fosun , represents the first partnership of its kind for China's fast-growing...
2010-03-03Chinese banks are taking the market by storm with a string of capital raisings. Just this week, Chinese lenders announced plans to raise up to RMB76bn(GBP7.2bn) through equity and...
2010-03-01Whether we look at M&A or IPO activity, it seems that corporate financing is no longer driven by Western trends. Takeovers involving emerging market (EM) acquirers represented...
2010-02-22China
With concerns mounting over growing asset bubbles and the economy overheating, Beijing has attempted to rein in the flood of capital into the equity markets by regulating IPOs. Under...
2010-02-10Australia
Asia's sovereign spreads have started to grind higher, as reflected by a broad-based widening of the region's 5-Year credit default swap (CDS) markets. We do not view this necessarily...
2010-02-10China
Swedish safety component supplier Autoliv has extended its purchase of assets from US parts-maker Delphi with the acquisition of its Asian safety products business. Without disclosing...
2010-02-03In 2009, Asia led global IPO activity, with Chinese issuers alone accounting for 46% of total volume, and was the third largest M&A target region by value at US$772bn. Needless...
2010-01-18
