This book offers a comprehensive analysis of the shareholder wealth effects of the financial sector consolidation in the Asia-Pacific region and its impact on the acquirer's cost of debt. The capital market reactions of the institutions directly involved in the M&A and their rivals are examined to evaluate the success of the consolidation process.

Navigating M&A Deals in the Asia-Pacific provides an authoritative, insiders perspective on best practices for facilitating mergers and acquisitions throughout countries in the Asia-Pacific. Featuring partners representing law firms across the region, including China, Japan, Vietnam, and Australia, this book guides the reader through recent M&A transactions and what lawyers and clients can learn from them. From setting goals and performing due diligence to drafting agreements and obtaining regulatory approval, these authors identify strategies for handling deals during a time of changing global economies. Additionally, these leaders reveal proven advice for working on high-profile cases, navigating cultural issues, and handling multinational work. The different niches represented and the breadth of perspectives presented enable readers to get inside some of the great legal minds of today, as these experienced lawyers offer up their thoughts on the keys to success within this ever-changing field.

The thirty-second edition of the Comparative Law Yearbook of International Business comprises two volumes, each dealing broadly with issues relating to cross-border and mergers and acquisitions. Volume A provides 16 chapters and examines mergers and acquisitions in Europe. Volume B provides 16 chapters and treats mergers and acquisitions in North America, Latin America, and Asia and the Pacific. Each consists of national reports and treatments of selected issues within the respective regions. Volume B, Mergers and Acquisitions in North America, Latin America, Asia and the Pacific, Selected Issues and Jurisdictions, reviews the Australian Takeovers Panel, joint ventures in China, and employment issues in New Zealand, as well as national reports on Brazil, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Japan, Nigeria, The Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Trinidad and Tobago.

This book attempts to exercise a rare restraint in two very crucial and controversial areas of global bank mergers by blindly extolling the virtues of mega bank mergers and the ceaseless flow of economies of scale it supposedly brings; and to resist the t

This study investigates the efficiency of large commercial banks in Asia and the Pacific region. In particular, the overall technical efficiency, pure technical efficiency and scale efficiency has been estimated, the factors (including, the environmental factors) that influence efficiency of banks in the region have been explained and the mean efficiency of large banks in different countries of the region has been compared. The study found that when the national frontier was expanded to regional frontier, the efficiency scores declined, the environmental variables had significant influence on efficiency scores and developed countries showed pure technical efficiency score significantly higher than the less developed countries. Hence, going by the global advantage hypothesis a surge in mergers and acquisitions of banks in this region is predicted.