Corporate Japan looks for growth overseas
Japanese companies need to take on the world. Local private equity professionals at the 2011 AVCJ Private Equity & Venture Forum Japan conference in Tokyo, which I am chairing, see globalization as the major current theme for corporate Japan. Indeed, savvy firms should and are taking advantage of the strong yen to engage in overseas M&A with a view to realizing growth opportunities in emerging markets as their domestic economy retreats.
Jun Tsusaka, partner and managing director of TPG Capital Japan is a strong believer. As he emphasized in his opening keynote, companies must think globally but act locally. Tsusaka noted that there is...
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