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At the same time, however, they go out of their way to stop radical cures through aggressive
mergers
or tough corporate workouts.
Many firms have already eliminated anti-takeover provisions in recent years, removing staggered boards and supermajority requirements for
mergers.
Some may need to reorganize or exit unprofitable markets; others may have to undertake
mergers
and acquisitions to achieve economies of scale.
In the 1990’s, foreign investors were chiefly attracted by privatization programs in the region, but more recently
mergers
and acquisitions and greenfield projects have been the most common type of investment.
Proposed bipartisan legislation to expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (which reviews
mergers
and acquisitions of domestic companies by foreign entities) to a broader range of investments – including Chinese venture capital and private-equity investments in US start-ups – is consistent with this recommendation.The PCAST report acknowledges that the US cannot stop China from pursuing industrial policies to build its advanced technology industries.
Proposed bipartisan legislation to expand the jurisdiction of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the US (which reviews
mergers
and acquisitions of domestic companies by foreign entities) to a broader range of investments – including Chinese venture capital and private-equity investments in US start-ups – is consistent with this recommendation.
Likewise, they insist that
mergers
and acquisitions, which make big companies bigger, should not be motivated by salary considerations, and that “golden parachutes” should not be granted to failed managers.
According to the US lawyers with whom I have spoken, who advise on cross-border
mergers
and acquisitions, because US screening processes for deals involving Chinese investors can face long and unpredictable delays, Chinese firms often have to pay an extra 15% to make their bids viable.
Mergers
with other organizations are viewed as a way to lessen the risk of eradication by drone strikes or ground attacks from rival forces.
Regulators’ primary tool to enforce compliance was their authority to reject non-CRA-compliant banks’ requests for new branches or
mergers.
Yet the American Enterprise Institute reports that, from 2005 to 2016, Chinese companies have made just 202 investments, including
mergers
and acquisitions, in the US, only 16 of which – totaling $21 billion – were in technology sectors.
Since the war, the bitter enmities between Al Qaeda and other Salafist and Sunni Arab nationalist groups have given way to cooperation or even
mergers.
With other large
mergers
also being announced, the global agriculture market at the end of 2017 could look very different than it did at the beginning.
Small states are better at public policy adjustments, freeing up labor markets, establishing a solid framework for competition, and facilitating cross-border takeovers and
mergers.
The University of Copenhagen’s
mergers
with the Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University and the Danish University of Pharmaceutical Sciences have made it the largest university in Scandinavia.
The result has been corporate mergers, reorganizations, and tens of thousands of job losses in the industry.
But, over the last decade, major European banks have acquired foreign banks through such
mergers
as the acquisition by Spain’s Banco Santander of the UK’s Abbey National, Italy’s UniCredito of Austria’s Hypovereinsbank and Holland’s ABN-AMRO.
The weak and diluted EU Takeover Directive, adopted after more than a decade of debate, fails to facilitate the cross-border
mergers
within Europe that are needed to build world champions.
Given this prospect, some developed countries have strengthened their regulatory framework to allow for the review of
mergers
and acquisitions by state-controlled entities, especially in sensitive industries or critical infrastructure.
The US Dodd-Frank legislation, enacted in 2010, did (weakly) cap the size of future bank
mergers.
Sadly, nowadays, things as disparate as highly paid executives, the Enron and Parmalat scandals, contested
mergers
and acquisitions, stock market volatility, "junk bonds," and asset-price bubbles are all lumped together under the snide heading "cowboy capitalism."
Simple partisanship helps to explain why some states want to push these
mergers
through.
Another explanation for the momentum behind health-insurer
mergers
is lobbying.
On the other side, at least for the past nine months, we’ve had the younger of us, Michael DeLong, serving as the Director of the Coalition to Protect Patient Choice (CPPC), funded by the Service Employees International Union to collects facts and figures about health-insurer
mergers
for state and local consumer groups.
If states hold public hearings to determine whether health-insurer
mergers
are warranted and serve the public interest, these groups can submit comments and possibly testify.
But they are often underfunded and ill equipped to assess the likely consequences of mergers, and to make valid technocratic arguments against them.
It has submitted comments on health-insurer
mergers
for proceedings in California, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Virginia, and Wisconsin; it has testified at hearings in California, Delaware, Florida, Missouri, New York, Virginia, and Wisconsin; and it has armed consumer groups and unions with relevant facts and figures.
Now that the Justice Department has stepped in, we can only hope that this story will have a happy ending, and that the courts will recognize that these
mergers
are anticompetitive and immensely harmful to consumers.
To varying degrees, conventional “retain-and-invest” strategies are being replaced by “downsize-and-distribute” strategies, whereby profits are spent on increased dividends, stock buybacks, and
mergers
and acquisitions.
Moreover, their stock-market dominance has hindered the healthy development of China’s capital market; they not only crowd out scarce resources for equity capital, but also complicate the normal operation of the market for
mergers
and acquisitions.
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