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.

Mid-year 2009: Recovering to a new reality

What a difference half a year makes. We started the year on a sombre note, staring into an economic abyss. Plunging stock markets, frozen credit and runs on banks threatened to bring about a global financial meltdown that would send the world into the Great Recession. Six months later, with the economies still on fiscal life support, major Asian bourses have recovered over a third of their losses from the 2007 peaks and there are growing concerns that we may be witnessing the start of another asset bubble – except that this time, it is built on the smouldering rubble of a still-tattered real economy.

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