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Hi, it’s Manuel Baigorri in Hong Kong, looking at Japanese buyers’ search for deals elsewhere in Asia. Also today, J&J strikes a big medical device deal and Carlyle’s CEO gets a sizeable payday.
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Japanese companies have been on the hunt for outbound acquisitions for quite some time now, as we’ve written about in this newsletter over the past year or so. Southeast Asia’s rapid economic growth, geographical proximity and young population are drawing an increasing part of that investment.