Asia-Pacific M&A Bulletin

The Asia-Pacific M&A Bulletin, prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers, is a useful reference (for current and potential investors targeting Asia-Pacific) which provides a comprehensive review and analysis of the trends in the mergers and acquisitions arena.

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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.

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