 Year-End 2008
Seeking opportunity in crisis
For M&A, 2008 had, for all intents and purposes, ended on 15 September, the day Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy and Merrill Lynch was taken over by Bank of America. Confidence plunged and fear of systemic meltdown gripped the business world. The credit crunch, which up until then had ravaged mainly the US and parts of Europe, intensified overnight into a global credit freeze. Stock markets across the world plunged. The global banking system and financial markets went into full cardiac arrest. The subprime crisis, which until then had been confined mainly to the financial sector, spilled into the real economy.
PricewaterhouseCoopers M&A Professionals
The Asia-Pacific region is characterised by a diversity of cultures, business practices and regulatory environments. Executing successful transactions in this market requires a combination of in-depth local knowledge and an integrated regional network. PricewaterhouseCoopers has experienced professionals in all major territories in the region within our Transaction Services, Tax Services (China M&A Tax and Hong Kong M&A Tax) and Corporate Finance practices to provide a wide range of integrated, uniform and high quality services to any potential investor in the Asia-Pacific region.
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Read more by downloading our Asia-Pacific M&A Bulletin (Year-End 2008) (pdf, 1.94MB) for your reference. Alternatively, you may launch and view the pdf excerpts for each section or jurisdiction below:
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South Asia
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