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...“Whilst I’d like to see some kind of kinetic action against the Behshad, I’m not sure we’ll see that in the near term,” he said. Additional reporting by John Paul Rathbone in London...
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...His predecessor, Masanori Mochida, came from the investment banking side of Goldman and is credited with establishing Goldman Sachs as a formidable force in M&A work....
...M&S and John Lewis, they will have to run faster.” M&S cannot afford distractions....
...Waitrose is only slightly ahead of M&S in the grocery market, with a 3.6 per cent market share this month versus the latter’s 3.4 per cent, according to data provider NIQ....
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...To help understand where the country’s going, I’m joined by two colleagues: Kana Inagaki is the FT’s Tokyo bureau chief and Leo Lewis is our Asia business editor....
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...Cleary Gottlieb has hired James Hu as a partner in New York to focus on M&A. He was previously at White & Case....
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...“I’m finally starting to achieve what I aimed for with the Indeed acquisition,” Idekoba said, adding that he would consider bolt-on technology acquisitions but not a large-scale one aimed at boosting revenues...
...I mean, maybe Leo sitting there in Tokyo going, God, what is this seed I’m on? Leo Lewis No, no, I think that’s exactly right....
...“Steve’s a very careful investor, and I’m assuming that he did his homework,” Wilbur Ross, a private equity investor who worked with Mnuchin in Trump’s cabinet, told the FT....
...Another head of M&A at a global investment bank said the Nippon Steel deal “would inspire other Japanese companies to act”....
...Leo Lewis Yes....
...“The yen is cheap and I’m afraid that investors will all of a sudden go and we’re left with an empty field.”...
...for M&S to steal their customers....
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...This year Mizuho, the third-biggest of the Japanese banks, announced the purchase of the Wall Street M&A advisory boutique Greenhill in an effort to keep up with its two rivals....
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