PE marginalized on Japan restructuring
The outbound trend sweeping through Japanese private equity owes a partial debt to last year’s earthquake, tsunami and subsequent nuclear crisis. Yes, the economic, demographic and industrial arguments for overseas expansion have been coalescing for years, but it took a tragedy of epic proportions to equip a nascent movement with a real sense of impetus.
At the same time, it put the Japanese government into defensive mode. Just as the earthquake and tsunami underlined the need for businesses to become more diversified, so that they aren't exclusively reliant...
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