Almost every multinational company wants a piece of China.
"YOU WON'T BELIEVE who just sat down next to us," gasps Howard Stringer, chief executive of Sony Corp. of America, a $19 billion piece of the Japanese multinational.
It is a piece of financial engineering that multinational companies, particularly from the US, have turned to in order to reduce their tax bill.
But the Chinese government bet correctly that Gamesa, as well as G.E. and other multinationals, would not dare risk losing a piece of China's booming wind farm business by complaining to trade officials in their home countries.
But Tesco, like many multinational retailers, has struggled to gain a significant piece of the fast-growing Chinese grocery market.
The GetUp! report says the Panama Papers "are just one piece of a much bigger story" about multinational corporations exploiting weaknesses and loopholes in national tax laws to shirk their tax responsibilities.
From global multinationals to individual investors, who doesn't want a piece of it?
Hundreds of local startups are developing new technologies for payment and security solutions, and multinational companies and banks are flocking to Israel for a piece of the action.
Initially, multinational companies hired Syngene for basic research, working on a single piece of a complex puzzle.
We are now 17 years removed from the I LOVE YOU worm luring unassuming users with promises of Anna Kournikova's photos, and yet we have another piece of malware knocking off nuclear power plants and multinational oil and shipping companies.
