The global financial crisis has put pressures on the Vietnamese economy with problems of inflation and interest rates and many small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) as well as larger firms have met financial and human resource difficulties. Mergers and acquisitions are considered a good solution to bail out SMEs and allow larger companies to restructure [...]
Merger and acquisition (M&A) activities occurred vibrantly throughout the year 2011 in many different forms, particularly with many deals worth millions of US dollar. 1. IFC purchases 10pct stake in VietinBank (Sector: Finance) This is a typical deal marking the stake purchase activity of foreign strategic investor for Vietnam’s banks. This is also share issuance [...]
A lot of businesses keep a hesitant outlook about the merger and acquisition (M&A) which is booming in Vietnam. Vietnamese businesses simply think that M&A means a business is swallowed by another, while they do not think that this is a business opportunity. At a recent workshop on merger and acquisition, the owner of a [...]
Merger and Acquisition (M&A) deals in the Vietnam’s consumption sector is estimated to surge to $1 billion in 2011, accounting for 25% of the country’s total M&A value. Dang Pham Minh Loan, Deputy Managing Director at VinaCapital told the local newspaper Dau Tu ( Investment). The M&A market in the consumption sector is expected to [...]
The small telecommunication enterprises or those operate inefficiently will be allowed to apply mergers and acquisitions (M &A) under the market mechanism, according to the draft of National Telecommunication development plan to 2020. The State will strictly control dominant telecommunication companies conducting economic concentration, transfer telecommunication resource use right following monopolization trend and decrease the [...]
In the current difficult economy, international investors are narrowing global investments whereas a lot of Japanese investors have done a series of merger and acquisitions (M&As) in Vietnam since the year early, the Lao Dong newspaper reported. In the sector of food, nutrition and consumer goods, DIAIF, a joint venture between Japanese firms namely Dream [...]
More merger and acquisition (M&A) deals have been taking place in Viet Nam, but sector observers say clear regulations are needed to govern such activities. One merger announced recently was that of the Gia Dinh Bank, which is now called the Ban Viet Bank (Viet Capital Bank) after a group of investors acquired a 30 [...]
M&A activities for the first nine months of this year reached over $2.6 billion, doubling that in the same period last year, Dau Tu Chung Khoan newspaper quoted data from Stox.vn financial information portal at a recent seminar. There were 60 major deals with the total value reaching nearly $2 billion in the form of [...]
The scale of Vietnamese merger & acquisition (M&A) market has doubled over 2010, reaching over $2.6 billion with 60 major deals in the first nine months this year and the total value of foreign currency flowing into Vietnam has reached nearly $2 billion, according to handouts from the seminar “Overall picture on M&A activities in [...]
Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) has long been known as a gold mine thanks to significant fluctuations in stock prices following a sudden affair. M&A and stock price fluctuations Normally, share prices of a company which is to be taken over by another sees a sharp rise because the buyer usually has to pay a heavy [...]
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