Japan - Shorts Increase on Pigeon, Fast Retailing; Decrease on Bandai Namco, Orix JREIT
The short notional in the market for the week ended 6 December is US$25.84bn (up by US$570m) with the largest short positions in Itochu Corp (8001...
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(Mostly) Asia M&A: November 2019 Roundup
For the month of November, 21 new deals were discussed on Smartkarma with an overall announced deal size of ~US$75bn, helped in large part by...
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Gundam Has Fallen! Long Live Gundam!
Today after the close, Bandai Namco Holdings (7832 JP) announced that its Tender Offer for Sotsu Co Ltd (3711 JP) had been completed successfully,...
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Gundam Gets Jiggy - A Voice Cries "Chotto Matte"
I expected an "easy" Tender Offer in Bandai Namco Holdings (7832 JP)'s "cleanup" of Gundam merchandising IP licensee/owner Sotsu Co Ltd (3711 JP)...
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Bandai Namco Gets That Last Bit of Gundam: Tender Offer for Sotsu (3711 JP)
In the mid-1960s, Japan's most successful baseball franchise - the Yomiuri Giants - designated a small company called "Toyo Agency" as its sole...
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