Japan’s M&A wave is just getting started
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🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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| 0:39.8 | Especially now that Isheba, the prime minister, just promised Trump that the flows would keep coming, sort of during their most recent summit at the White House. |
| 0:50.6 | And so I think that combined with the sort of the demographic pressure and the lack of growth in their home market sort of guarantees that we're going to see a pretty steady flow of these deals this year, even if they do end up overpaying. |
| 1:05.5 | Japanese acquirers are out hunting for targets. Whether it's Honda and Nissan discussing a merger, a 9 trillion |
| 1:13.6 | yen buyout of 7 and I, or the country's life insurers hoovering up assets in the US, animal spirits |
| 1:20.4 | are alive and well in the country that is facing unfavorable demographics. But what is ultimately |
| 1:26.6 | driving this wave of M&A? |
| 1:28.7 | And what did the deal say about the country's wider plan to improve corporate governance? |
| 1:33.4 | This and more is the focus of this week's Views Room. |
| 1:41.4 | Welcome back to the Views Room, the weekly podcast that invites you the listener into a lively debate with Breaking Views columnists. |
| 1:48.5 | I'm your host, Amy Donnellin. |
| 1:50.4 | And I'm Jonathan Guilford. Amy, for the past few months, we've seen some pretty interesting activity coming out of Japan. |
| 2:17.7 | In December, you had Honda and Nissan announcing that they were exploring a merger, and there |
| 2:22.3 | was already a mammoth buyout offer for 7-11 owner 7 and an eye going on. |
| 2:27.3 | Japan is really interesting for so many reasons right now. |
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