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...His radical views on business, his visceral dislike of big corporations and his instinct to go for the jugular made him one of the most feared dealmakers of his day....
...lead to legislation that will regulate not only corporations but also investors,” Lipton recently wrote to the CII....
...This year, Australia blocked a plan to sell a major stake in the New South Wales grid to a consortium led by China’s State Grid Corporation....
...Of course, the new Asian corporations would not be exactly the same as the ‘Seven Sisters’....
...The bumper year of 2007 was driven almost entirely by two mega-deals on the part of the Chinese government’s sovereign wealth fund, the Chinese Investment Corporation, which bought 10 per cent stakes in...
...China Investment Corporation, the country’s $410bn sovereign wealth fund, is rumoured to be in talks to buy a London office park for £800m....
...That seems especially apposite now, as China National Offshore Oil Corporation, the state-controlled group, awaits a final decision on its proposed $18bn takeover of Nexen, one of Canada’s biggest energy...
...However, past attempted sales of sensitive US assets to foreign companies – including China National Offshore Oil Corporation’s $20bn bid in 2005 for California’s Unocal – have stirred up significant political...
...In 2005, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC), the state-owned oil company, dropped its $16bn bid for Unocal, the US energy group, when the US House of Representatives launched a review into security...
...“China’s outbound investments have grown steadily over the past five years, and the trend will accelerate as increasingly sophisticated Chinese corporations continue to take advantage of what is, in many...
...The US obstructed a bid in 2005 by the Chinese National Offshore Oil Corporation for Unocal, a Californian oil company, on national security grounds....
...The price of niobium has nearly doubled over the past decade to about $23,000 a tonne last year – a boon for CBMM and for Unocal, the US oil group that owns a large minority stake in the group, but a problem...
...Recall how the Chinese state oil company CNOOC was deterred by political opposition from its bid for the US oil company Unocal in 2005....
...In 2005, a $18.5bn bid by state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corporation for Unocal, the US oil company, failed because of fierce political resistance....
...Mr Fu, 59, who has been chief executive since 2003, spearheaded CNOOC’s failed bid for Unocal of the US and led the company through a period of rapid growth and overseas expansion....
...Just ask Dana Petroleum, struggling to fend off an unwanted approach from Korea National Oil Corporation....
...Cnooc’s abortive bid for Unocal, the US oil group, in 2005 has lingered in Chinese memories....
...In 2005, an $18.5bn bid by state-owned CNOOC for Unocal, a US oil and gas group, fell foul of US misgivings that Beijing was using state muscle to grab global assets....
...China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc), China’s state-owned energy company, is in talks with StatoilHydro, the Norwegian energy company, to cover the cost of drilling exploration wells in the US...
...charged bid for Unocal in 2005 in favour of Chevron....
...Indeed, the abortive deal between Rio and Chinalco is now being openly compared with the abortive Chinese bid to takeover America’s Unocal in 2005....
...by CNOOC to buy the US’s Unocal – they have not attempted to buy big refining operations abroad....
...Unsurprisingly, activists involved in pursuing corporations over alleged abuses dispute this....
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