Archive for the ‘M&A’ Category

Like a whirlwind

Monday, November 5th, 2007

The Economist had a clever piece on Chinese financial company's acquiring resources abroad. Most notably the ICBC - Standard bank deal, which made ICBC a 20% owner of the largest financial institution in Africa. The general thrust of the article is that since China has been thus far blocked from ...

Say what now?

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

The most exciting news that comes out of party congresses tends to be some variation of the game "break the communist code" (sarcasm only partially intended, I find this stuff endlessly interesting). This suddenly changed on Tuesday, when a casual statement by CBRC Vice-Chairman Jiang Dingzhi led to, I ...