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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StubWorld: Holdcos At 3 STD+
This week in StubWorld ... For a slight change of pace, I briefly touch on three Holdco structures - two at setup levels, one at an unwind level -...
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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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Gundam Has Fallen! Long Live Gundam!
Today after the close, Bandai Namco Holdings (7832 JP) announced that its Tender Offer for Sotsu Co Ltd (3711 JP) had been completed successfully,...
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Gundam Gets Jiggy - A Voice Cries "Chotto Matte"
I expected an "easy" Tender Offer in Bandai Namco Holdings (7832 JP)'s "cleanup" of Gundam merchandising IP licensee/owner Sotsu Co Ltd (3711 JP)...
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