When Chinese regulators slammed the brakes on overseas dealmaking late last year, many of the country’s most prolific acquirers saw their global ambitions come to a screeching halt.
But one company has kept on buying as even as Chinese mergers and acquisitions dropped to a three-year low in the first quarter of 2017: HNA Group.
After starting in 1989 as a Hainan-based private airline operator, HNA has in recent years transformed into a sprawling holding company, with a reputation as China’s most omnipresent overseas acquirer, striking deals worth $40bn in the past 28 months, according to a Financial Times analysis of Dealogic data.
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