Ellis's main argument is that in the last few years the Chinese have started to establish a new, "significant" physical presence in Latin America and the Caribbean – following trade deals, acquisitions, loans and loan-backed construction projects, among other things.
The company subsequently hoovered up a cluster of rivals — including Rocket Internet-backed Glossybox Taiwan — in a six deal acquisition spree.
The rest of baseball's news isn't quite so dour or ridiculous, although quite a few teams are trying to explain away how their deadline deal acquisitions have gone so poorly, Steve Henson writes on Yahoo.com.
The Bank of Moscow appears to be focusing on potential energy deals and acquisition of Serbian state-owned banks.
Jérôme Berton, a pharmaceutical sector analyst at Aurel Securities in Paris, called the deal "an acquisition in all but name".
G.M. could have contributed the $7 billion in cash, but by using its Hughes interest instead, the company keeps that capital handy for other possible deals, including acquisitions.
Apollo's attempt to disentangle itself from another potentially bad deal — an acquisition of Huntsman, the chemical company — has resulted in a messy flurry of lawsuits.
In one of Mr. Hicks's earliest deals, the acquisitions of Dr Pepper and Seven-Up in the 1980's, he and his backers put up just 7percentt.
At Allscripts, Mr. Tullman soon announced what looked like a game-changing deal: the acquisition of another records company, Eclipsys, for $1.3 billion.
