Corporate divestments: Time to sell?
Asia Pacific companies are increasingly willing to consider non-core asset sales as they seek to shed dead weight and re-focus on major business areas, especially as technology threatens to overturn established practices
About one-third of the 32 PE buyouts announced last year with valuations of $500 million or more were corporate carve-outs. This compares to five out of 20 in 2016. According to a survey by EY, divestment...
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