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While Chinese outbound M&A has been busy making headlines as China buys up assets across the globe, China's inbound M&A is quietly creating a buzz of its own. Inbound M&A...
2010-02-10Finance
Reports of Reliance's potential bid for MGM are a meaningful symbol of the ascent of BRIC outward M&A at the expense of underperforming US giants. The Indian conglomerate, which has...
2010-01-18Finance
September 7 saw Abu Dhabi's state technology group Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC) offer to buy Singaporean semiconductor foundry Chartered Semiconductor for US$1.8bn,...
2009-09-08Finance
CFW expects airline M&A activity to take off in the second half of 2009, following on from US$22,278 in M&A deals in 2008 and US$1,859 to date in 2009. Last year, high fuel...
2009-06-10Finance
June 1 saw Singaporean sovereign wealth fund (SWF) Temasek acquire a 13.76% stake in agricultural commodities firm Olam International, in a move that we believe herald a major transformation...
2009-06-03Finance
The June 2 announcement of a SGD1.44bn (US$1bn) rights issue by Singapore-based container shipping giant Neptune Orient Lines (NOL) not only hints at a return of investor appetite...
2009-06-02Finance
On May 25 State controlled energy group PetroChina, the listed subsidiary of China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), confirmed that it had agreed to pay US$1bn for 45.5% stake...
2009-05-27Finance
CFW's prediction that Asian firms could increasingly be forced to look to discounted rights issues in order to raise capital (see 'DBS Group Rights Issue Highlights The Cost Of Success',...
2009-02-11
