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...While banks such as Nomura Holdings and Merrill Lynch tend to focus on large deals, like the $30 billion takeover that formed Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group or the $3.5 billion marriage of cosmetics company Kao with Kanebo Cosmetics, the M&A mania has also spread to smaller companies. Terrie Lloyd, an M&A consultant with 23 years of experience in Japan, says he encounters more and more Japanese investors who are interested in buying a motley batch of companies, pasting them together into mini-conglomerates with dubious business merit, and flipping them via an IPO: "This is a new phenomenon...
...rules, which are not equipped to handle this brave new world of special-purpose entities, stock swaps and other financing arcana. But Tokyo is moving quickly to correct these deficiencies and restore confidence in its regulatory stringency. Among most major M&A players, however, confidence is not the problem. Nomura is reportedly adding 20 people to its 100-person M&A team. Lehman is expanding its M&A desk by a third, and Merrill Lynch and Mitsubishi UFJ Securities have said they too are bulking...
Dancing Machine Inventor: Tohoku University, Nomura Unison Group, TroisO Co. Ltd. Availability: Prototype only To Learn More: www.irs.mech.tohoku.ac.jp/top.html With a face modeled on Marilyn Monroe's and a long, flowing skirt to hide its three wheels, the Partner Ballroom Dance Robot is a 5-ft. 5-in. waltzing humanoid. Available in hot pink or blue, it has upper-body sensors that allow it to "predict" its partner's next steps. Dancing is just one application. "By interpreting users' movements to estimate what they want, care robots will be able to provide better service for the elderly...
Last spring, Sowood filed a statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on the University’s behalf, urging shareholders to support a Harvard proposal that the fund be liquidated and severed from Nomura Asset Management, its investment manager. Liquidating the fund would distribute its underlying investments to shareholders...
Harvard’s filing blasted Nomura as “ineffectual and self-serving” and contended that the fund’s performance was lackluster...