Japan
Finance
CFW View: ExxonMobil's decision to lessen its exposure to the Japanese downstream represents a strategic retreat. Indeed, despite spiking oil demand in the aftermath of the Tohoku earthquake,...
2012-01-31Finance
Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) is continuing to sell its non core assets as part of its three year strategy of 'shrink to grow'.
2012-01-25Industry
Currently it seems like not a week goes by without
2012-01-18Finance
Japanese convenience store retailer Lawson is contemplating an equity listing on the Shanghai Stock Exchange's proposed international board in two to three years, reiterating its commitment...
2012-01-12Finance
Two newly announced deals have again highlighted private equity (PE)'s attraction to relatively unfashionable parts of the food sector. In the US PE firm Centre Partners announced the...
2011-12-21Finance
Corporate Japan's involvement in the crisis-stricken European continent is emerging on more than just one front. In last week's publication we noted how cash-rich opportunist M&A...
2011-12-14Finance
A sleeping dealmaking giant is awakening in Asia. Over the past few years the M&A market headlines in Asia have been dominated by China as it used its unparalleled foreign exchange...
2011-12-07Finance
Desperate times call for desperate measures. Tokyo Electric Power Company ( TEPCO ), owner and operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plants, has announced plans to raise...
2011-11-30
