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...Dealmakers on both sides of the Pacific have reason to celebrate as Nippon’s all-cash takeover bid sparks hope for a wave of M&A as cash-rich Japanese corporations look to expand beyond their shrinking domestic...
...Meta (formerly known as Facebook) has tied its corporate reputation to the idea’s evolution and has bet more than $10bn on reinventing virtual reality....
...Fast-tracking change UK politicians have a solution to London’s congested streets: charging fees for diesel and gasoline cars to speed up the transition to electric vehicles....
...Law firm Weil Gotshal has hired Lois Deasey as a restructuring partner in London. She was formerly at Akin Gump....
...Kim, known as the “godfather of Asian private equity,” says firms like his have helped the country carve out a valuable and distinct niche for itself in the region....
...The Metals Company, formerly known as DeepGreen Metals, made its debut on the stock market last month after a deal with Sustainable Opportunities Acquisition Corporation six months earlier....
...Analysts said the appointment of Ridha Wirakusumah, head of Indonesia’s Bank Permata, along with other experienced financial sector professionals to the board of the fund, to be known as Indonesia Investment...
...But many US companies have started preparing for carbon pricing, according to CDP, a non-profit formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project....
...Spotlight Until last week, Tsai Ming-kai, the Taiwanese billionaire once known as China’s “bandit phone king”, was on a roll, writes Kathrin Hille in Taipei....
...Long confined to the periphery of finance, special purpose acquisition companies, or Spacs as the shells are known, have emerged as one of the hottest trends on the US equity market in a year defined by...
...PPL, formerly known as Pennsylvania Power and Light, traces its roots to the consolidation of eight electric companies across eastern and central Pennsylvania in 1920....
...And it reaches far beyond real estate; Brookfield’s eclectic investment portfolio includes 14,500km of railways and toll roads, about one-seventh of France’s mobile phone masts, and Westinghouse, the formerly...
...The Sacklers were once chiefly known for their patronage of the arts....
...Santee Cooper and South Carolina Electric & Gas Company said on Monday that they had ordered a halt to construction of their jointly-owned project, known as the VC Summer plant, in Jenkinsville with immediate...
...State-controlled Korea Electric Power Corporation is seen by some industry experts as the only potential acquirer of Westinghouse that would be acceptable to the US from a national security perspective....
...That could open an opportunity for Korea Electric Power Corporation (Kepco), the South Korean energy group, to offer its APR-1400 reactor as a replacement for the AP1000 model built by Toshiba’s US nuclear...
...Management consultancies including McKinsey, BCG, Bain & Company and Strategy&, formerly known as Booz & Co, have extensive operations in China, which remains a rapidly growing market for them....
...But the move could also be seen as an attempt by Tesla to pitch itself less as a rarefied carmaker, and more as an industry-wide platform for electric vehicle technology....
...An additional worry for the new distribution companies, or ‘discos’ as they are known, is in likely teething problems with a new staggered tariff regime....
...Thanks to robust financial markets in the first part of 2011, these companies have extended the bulk of upcoming maturities on their debt, known in market parlance as the “maturity wall,” to 2016 from 2014...
...as brown coal....
...Natural gas was formerly a national or regional fuel....
...Better Place’s head of local operations is Moshe Kaplinsky, a burly action man who formerly served as deputy head of the Israeli Defence Forces....
...When Saudi Basic Industries Corporation bought GE Plastics for about $11.6bn in May it marked the largest acquisition by an Arab company of a foreign rival....
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