US hedge fund eyes Japan brewer
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Steel Partners submits a proposal to buy-up more of Japanese brewer Sapporo.
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US investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. (LEH.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is in talks to buy leading British hedge fund
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Relatively well-off people in Manhattan or San Francisco or Seattle tend to pay their rents. Financial markets, especially the asset-backed ones that are so key to leveraged buy-outs, like this kind of stability. So it is fairly surprising that real estate investment trusts focusing on apartments have not been the subject of private equity interest - until now at least. On Tuesday, Tishman Speyer Properties and Lehman Brothers (NYSE:LEH) offered an enterprise value of $22bn for Archstone (NYSE:ASN)-Smith, known for its high-quality portfolio in sought-after cities such as New York.
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TOKYO : The brokerage arm of Japan&#39;s biggest lender, the Mizuho Financial Group, and Norinchukin Bank, the umbrella bank for farmers&#39; cooperatives, are considering expanding their ties, an official said.
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US investment banking giant Goldman Sachs has offered to buy stakes in Japan's biggest consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp. for more than 300 billion yen (2.8 billion dollars), a report said.
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Japan's top three banks are expected to  resist a request to put up a total of $15 billion for a  U.S.-led subprime rescue fund, a move that could further cloud  prospects for the bailout plan.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is in talks with  the founding family Takefuji Corp., the biggest player in  Japan's $100 billion consumer finance industry, that may result  in the U.S. firm buying about a third of the company for more  than $2.7 billion, a financial source said.
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Japan considers joining the US in filing a complaint with the WTO against China.
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Japanese investment bank Nomura is in talks to provide financial backing for Keith Harris, a businessman and fan of Manchester United who wants to prevent the football club&#39;s takeover by a US sports tycoon.
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NEW YORK -- Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC, the investment firm run by former Goldman Sachs Group Inc. trader Daniel Och, filed to raise $2 billion in the largest initial public offering by a US hedge-fund firm.
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A U.S. investment fund is putting pressure on NEC Corp.  to give up control of its ailing chip making unit by offering $1.25 billion for a 25 percent stake, the latest foreign shareholder to apply heat on what they see as underperforming firms in Japan.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc. may be in talks with the founding family of top Japanese consumer finance firm Takefuji Corp. for a stake of over &#36;2.74 billion, a source told Reuters on Friday, heating up competition among foreign investors to enter a &#36;97 billion industry.
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JPMorgan Fleming Asset & Wealth  Management on Monday said it plans to buy a majority interest  in and enter into a partnership with Highbridge Capital  Management, a hedge funds manager, to bolster its presence  among hedge funds and attract a broader audience of investors  to hedge funds.
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The LSE pushes for closer ties in Japan, following a failed bid for the UK market by US rival Nasdaq.
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Japan Tobacco Inc. confirmed on Friday it  was in talks to buy smaller rival Gallaher Group Plc L> , in a  7.5 billion pound ($14.7 billion) deal that would extend its  overseas expansion.
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Nomura Holdings, Japanâs biggest securities firm, will buy a 15 percent stake in the Fortress Investment Group.
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By Kyodo News International, Tokyo  Feb. 20--TOKYO -- Investment fund Ichigo Asset Management Ltd. said  Tuesday it has mustered almost one-third of shareholder votes in Tokyo  Kohtetsu Co. to scuttle the steelmaker's motion to become a wholly owned unit  of Osaka Steel Co.