Mergers and acquisitions in S-E Asia expected to rise, BUSINESS TIMES

Business Times (Malaysia)

02-13-2003

MERGER and acquisition activities in South-East Asia are expected to
increase this year, says American investment bank JP Morgan.
Its chairman for Asia Pacific Ralph Parks said this is because
companies in the region have access to international funds as they are
well capitalised.
"The corporations in Asia are far more appropriately financed now than
they were during the 1997 Asian financial crisis," he told Business Times
in an interview.
Take, for example, Malaysian-owned companies. Last yea