Smartkarma Originals
A Potential Asian LBO Screening System
With a relatively full slate of large value takeovers in Developed Asia in the past year - often by parents but also by buyout funds - and the...
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Denso – The Future CASE Landscape as the Hitachi-Honda Group Merger Takes Shape
We visited Denso last week to discuss the company’s CASE strategy and to assess the prospects for a margin rebound as its investment ramp period...
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(Mostly) Asia M&A: November 2019 Roundup
For the month of November, 21 new deals were discussed on Smartkarma with an overall announced deal size of ~US$75bn, helped in large part by...
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Are Hitachi and Honda Following the Toyota Group's J-QuAD Dynamics JV?
Hitachi Ltd (6501 JP) Hitachi announced that its Automotive Systems company, along with three Honda Motor (7267 JP) Keiretsu Group companies, are...
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Honda TOB for Showa (7274) - THIS One Is Too Cheap
Yesterday morning before the open, the Yomiuri carried headlines suggesting that Honda Motor (7267 JP)'s three large auto parts affiliates - Showa...
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