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M&A

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Frequent-flyer, frequent-buyer

What lies behind HNA Group’s $40 billion M&A buying spree?
Apr 21, 2017 (WiC 362)

Hainan-based HNA Group’s founder and chairman Chen Feng gave an interview to China Entrepreneur magazine in 2008 in which he described two of the great dangers that businesspeople face in China. For the first he cited the old adage that the ...

Closing credits

Wanda drops latest deal; capital controls blamed
Mar 17, 2017 (WiC 358)

Hollywood is a place where dreams are supposed to come true. But that’s no longer the case, it seems, for one of China’s richest men, Wang Jianlin. His efforts to scale the heights of the US entertainment industry suffered a setback last ...

Breaking new ground

China's self-styled "White Knight" rides in to save LeEco
Jan 20, 2017 (WiC 352)

“Know the enemy and know yourself,” advised Sun-tzu in his classic text The Art of War. Follow this maxim and “in a hundred battles you’ll never be in peril,” he added. Investors in Sunac China will be hoping the company’s ...

The struggle for control at Vanke may be over
Jan 20, 2017 (WiC 352)

The ‘invisible hand’ of the market is supposed to deliver unintended social benefits. But over the last few months, a more visible force seems to have been pulling the strings in the long-running takeover battle for China’s second largest ...

Giant glassmaker claims China is losing its edge
Jan 6, 2017 (WiC 350)

Before it became the world’s biggest automotive glass maker, Fuyao Glass was a lossmaking factory in Fujian province. The turnaround began when it started exporting to the United States, helped by Fuyao boss Cao Dewang’s good connections with ...

Ctrip grabs global business; Airbnb aims to boost its China presence
Dec 9, 2016 (WiC 349)

More than 120 million Chinese vacationed overseas in 2015, according to the National Tourism Administration. Ctrip – China’s leading online travel player – wants to go global in selling them more air tickets and more hotel ...

Go with the flow

New plan to restrict the deluge of overseas acquisitions by Chinese firms
Dec 2, 2016 (WiC 348)

The struggle to stem the flood of cash leaving China is unrelenting. Last week WiC reported how the authorities have made it harder for tourists from the mainland to buy insurance policies by the bucket-load in Hong Kong (see WiC347) using their ...

Negocio da China

Why is Fosun so keen on investing in Portugal?
Dec 2, 2016 (WiC 348)

When the Portuguese want to describe a money-spinning business deal they call it a “negocio da China”. It is a term which harks back to the sixteenth century shortly after Pope Alexander VI divided the world between the empires of Portugal ...

The vision thing

Different directions for two of China’s most acquisitive companies
Nov 18, 2016 (WiC 346)

When Jia Yueting, LeEco’s flamboyant founder, unveiled a model of his firm’s first driverless car in April, he described it as another step ahead in his “crazy dream”. Perhaps investors should have taken closer note of the language being ...

Berlin blockage

Why Germany is criticising China over M&A deals
Nov 11, 2016 (WiC 345)

Last week the AKP conference saw almost a thousand German business executives gathered in Hong Kong. The event – organised by a host of German chambers of commerce – is held once every two years in an Asian city, but on this occasion the ...

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