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...always prefer to sell to other Japanese companies," says Dean Yoost, CEO of a PricewaterhouseCoopers division in Tokyo that advises on mergers and acquisitions. The foreigner is the buyer of last resort. That means the price is often right: Ripplewood paid $130 million for Seagaia (with a commitment to invest $100 million)?a total that is only 8% of the $3 billion it cost to build the resort, which opened in 1994. But Ripplewood faces a turnaround task that is the corporate equivalent of raising the dead...
...this system remains elusive, in the spirit of mutual respect and understanding, Harvard should help them solve this problem easily and cheaply. The University should invest its resources in creating a “Cambridge City Election” version of UCVote. Imagine the ease of typing “CambridgeVote” at the fas% prompt, and the uplifting feeling that you are participating in a fair election...
...minis keep expanding. Steel Dynamics broke ground on a $315 million structural-steel and rail mill in Columbia City, Ind., last May. And just outside Mobile, Ala., a $35 million heavy-plate and coil mill went online last year, built by the Canadian firm IPSCO. Why did IPSCO invest in Alabama? A $500 million package of tax breaks and subsidies, including money for roads, rail service and docks along the Mobile River, helped attract the company, said a spokesman. So did the weakness of unions in Alabama...
...always prefer to sell to other Japanese companies," says Dean Yoost, CEO of a PricewaterhouseCoopers division in Tokyo that advises on mergers and acquisitions. The foreigner is the buyer of last resort. That means the price is often right: Ripplewood paid $130 million for Seagaia (with a commitment to invest $100 million)--a total that is only 8% of the $3 billion it cost to build the resort, which opened in 1994. But Ripplewood faces a turnaround task that is the corporate equivalent of raising the dead...
These managers view the recession as a classic opportunity to invest near the bottom--and with less money pouring in, those who do invest get better terms. Venture-capital managers who had been demanding fees equal to 30% of profits--up from the normal 20%--may not be so cocky going forward, notes Steven Galante, president of Asset Alternatives, a Wellesley, Mass., research firm. And for those who put their money in private equity, the corporate books allow the kind of transparency that stock-market investors crave post-Enron. To secure seed money for start-ups and spin-offs, companies...