"Each of them offers remarkably complementary assets, tools, ideas," he said.
Mr. Eguchi brings complementary assets, a pearly sound and a self-effacing polish that ground the music.
But they quickly found that they had similar visions for the new graduate school -- and complementary assets.
Investment banking requires complementary assets: a retail brokerage network to flog the stocks, and a research department to give it nice ratings.
The transaction unites two leading studios with powerful brands and complementary assets, solidifying Lionsgate's position as the world's largest and most diversified independent entertainment company.
The partnerships are started at or near the older partner's retirement from a lifelong career, so two generations bring complementary assets to a new business.
"A merger of these two world-class companies with complementary assets is highly compelling" and would provide "enhanced scale and financial flexibility to fund future growth," Xstrata said in a statement.
"The F.C.C. recognizes that this merger uniquely combines complementary assets that will generate enormous public interest benefits," and Ivan G. Seidenberg, chairman and chief executive of Bell Atlantic "We look forward to creating the next great brand in communications, one that will set the standard for global communications companies".
A JupiterResearch analyst, David Schatsky, explains the deal this way on his blog: The rationale for the merger is pretty simple: combine our complementary assets and build a bigger, more influential research and consulting powerhouse that can advise clients at every phase of the media and technology lifecycle, from appraising a deal to programming content in a multiplatform digital world.
These can conflict with structures intended to manage coordination with the parent firm's complementary assets.
The central theme of this paper is how firms try to unlock communities as complementary assets.
