Evidence is mounting that
big overseas deals can still be done if they're in the right industries.
As a result of the crackdown
on overseas deals, China's non-financial outbound direct investment fell to only $ 78 billion in the first nine months of 2017, down 42 % from a year earlier.
Delivery firm 58 Suyun is merging with logistics company GoGoVan, demonstrating Chinese companies are still able to
make overseas deals.
At the same time, I saw from foreign publishers that as soon as I
signed overseas deals, emails would trickle in through my agent asking if I could raise the price on the English editions in their countries.
US companies launched more than $ 101 billion worth
of overseas deals, with the largest move coming from cable group Comcast as it tries to break up a takeover of UK pay - TV broadcaster Sky.
Last month, the Wall Street Journal reported that Chinese banking regulators are probing three major investors in New York's real estate market — HNA Group, Anbang Insurance Group and Fosun International — over
risky overseas deals.
The past few months have seen Caltex complete two smaller acquisitions, the $ 325 million purchase of Gull New Zealand, its
first overseas deal, and the $ 95 million purchase of Milemaker Petroleum in Victoria.
Now China's wind giant Sinovel has signed an agreement to supply turbines to build 600 MW of wind projects in Turkey, in what could be the company's
largest overseas deal to date.
A successful bid by Jollibee would mark the
biggest overseas deals to date by the Flipino company, and potentially one of the biggest ever outbound deals from the Philippines.
The merger shows how domestic Chinese companies are still able to make
some overseas deals work
According to Nasberg, U.S. companies need to conduct a three - part investigation on
any overseas deal:
Much of Mueller's case against Paul Manafort is tied to Manafort's work in Ukraine, and Mueller's team subpoenaed Trump's businesses in March looking at Trump's
overseas deals.
Agents started spreading the myth in 2011 and increased the push in 2012 that writers needed agents to sell movie deals and
overseas deals.