China will be wary of big acquisitions of foreign Banks and insurers in 2011.
Google Ventures is a backer, and Apple's former top lawyer for mergers and acquisitions is a co-founder.
The dire state of the IPO market and the mergers-and-acquisitions business means VC funds will have to hold on to firms for far longer than planned.
It may seem strange that we exult over a year in which we made three acquisitions, given that we have regularly used these pages to question the acquisition activities of most managers.
Such mismatch conditions are usually the result of mergers and acquisitions.
They have two main options: acquisitions (pepsi has just bought its two main bottlers) or payouts to shareholders—assuming they are cheery enough to stop hoarding cash.
This wave of mergers, acquisitions and asset sales has helped to revive the fortunes of the world's steelmakers by reducing the chronic overcapacity that had troubled the industry for decades.
Protects customer investment in a highly volatile information management market in which mergers and acquisitions frequently take place.
This is likely to be only partially offset by a pickup in businesses tied more closely to economic growth, such as advising on mergers and acquisitions.
Some analysts think the deal could accelerate this trend by triggering more acquisitions.
Another sign of change is corporate Japan's sudden zeal for mergers and acquisitions, despite the uncertain business environment and a scarcity of capital.
It would mark the latest in a string of acquisitions in Asia by the world's biggest online auctioneer.
All three firms have high borrowing, in large part due to overpriced acquisitions they made during the boom years.
Fourth, we face the choice of turning inward and becoming protectionist or opening up our economies to foreign investment and facilitating mergers and acquisitions;
Politics has already interrupted cross-border mergers and acquisitions.
Mergers or acquisitions caused duplicate (silo) systems.
