Taiwan: Back from the brink
The telling blow came in the American Chamber of Commerce in Taipei’s (AmCham) 2013 White Paper: Taiwan ranks second last among 17 Asian countries – trailing Sri Lanka and ahead of only Pakistan – in attracting private equity investment. The data used in the report, from 2012, were truly miserable. Just under $57 million was invested, and most of that went into a single PIPE deal.
The Taiwan government promised to revise rules on foreign investment and facilitate the inflow of PE capital. It gave impetus to quiet lobbying of the regulators by the Taiwan M&A and PE Council (MAPE)...
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