How can these managers pursue foreign acquisitions and end up managing the acquired corporations?
With it came a lesson in the politicking that can hamper big foreign acquisitions.
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For all the fanfare of the past months, successful foreign acquisitions are still the exception rather than the rule.
Hayek insists that all knowledge is local: HP and other companies attempting large foreign acquisitions would do well to remember this.
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CFIUS, as the committee is known, is the federal panel charged with scrubbing foreign acquisitions of domestic assets for national security threats.
He argues that even foreign acquisitions, which politicians hardly court but which account for the bulk of FDI, play a vital role.
Between January and June Japanese firms made 262 foreign acquisitions, according to Recof, a consultancy: a record for the first half of a year.
Like many Japanese firms sitting on big cash reserves, DoCoMo finds the idea of foreign acquisitions attractive because the yen is strong and foreign share prices are low.
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This will be a big test for the Batista brothers and for Brazil's tropical brand of capitalism, which mixes family control with traded stock, and finance from state-run banks with foreign acquisitions.
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It is expected to seek further foreign acquisitions and was this week reported to be in talks with the German Beck's brewery, with a view to extending its UK distribution deal to the rest of Europe.
The process of land concentration tends to be amplified by large-scale foreign land acquisitions, resulting in growing inequalities in farm size.
As the phenomenon of large-scale foreign land acquisitions is very recent, it is difficult to assess their full environmental and social impact at this early stage.
The US Chamber of Commerce, a business lobby, says the FCPA also deters foreign mergers and acquisitions.
He bought them anyway, just in time to catch a Chinese-driven boom and a slew of acquisitions by foreign steelmakers like India's Mittal Steel.
These issues will come to the fore as Indian overseas investment which surged in 2007 and 2008 amid a clutch of high-profile, high-value acquisitions of foreign firms increases dramatically.
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He bought them anyway, just in time to catch a Chinese-driven boom and a slew of acquisitions by foreign steelmakers like India's Mittal Steel (nyse: MT - news - people ).
With all the hysterical talk about slowing takeovers with legislation, about curbing the spread of junk bond acquisitions and foreign buying of U.S. assets, few people seem aware that our current tax code--passed by Congress and approved in general by the business community--provides a huge bounty to people whether Americans or foreigners, who want to take over companies.
Revenues did rise 8%, but this was driven mostly by acquisitions and favorable foreign currency effects.
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Organic local-currency growth account for 3.3% of that growth, while higher selling prices, acquisitions, and foreign exchange impacts added the rest.
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Look for more acquisitions, in part by foreign banks eager to use Hong Kong as a launching platform for the Chinese market.
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Rather than make fresh acquisitions, says Mr Butters, foreign investors are more likely to form joint ventures, as Michelin has done with Tigar, a local tyre maker.
It dumped lots of small foreign businesses, picked up in the course of acquisitions.
The result may be more acquisitions from abroad, which would give foreign firms a production base inside American trade barriers.
Shareholder returns are at the mercy of commodity prices, drilling gambles, perpetual asset sales and acquisitions, and hedging talents on both commodities and foreign exchange desks.
The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) must block acquisitions, takeovers, or mergers involving Huawei and ZTE given the threat to U.S. national security interests.
In an increasingly globalized market, mergers and acquisitions with an international component are routine, and most foreign purchases of American business assets will raise no national security issues.
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Foreign buyers could arrange to keep their debt for U.S. acquisitions "upstream" at the parent's level to take advantage of it.
Later on, acquisitions made by Lenovo and others signaled Chinese companies were now securing famous foreign brands and technology.
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