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Abstract Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to explain the June 24, 2010 decision of the US Supreme Court in Morrison v. National Australia Bank Ltd concerning the [...]

Highly-leveraged American companies can form strategic alliances or joint ventures with foreign corporations as an alternative means of raising capital and sustaining growth. The overseas partner, usually Japanese or European, serves as an instrument for financial as well as technological enhancement for the US firm. Demand is high for pharmaceuticals, medical technology, health care, and environmental services industries. Partnerships usually involve established foreign corporations that wish to expand their US distribution or desire to avail of industrial or technological expertise. These alliances usually produce lower-than-expected returns. Commitment is integral to the success of the partnership since a deal could take from six months to a year to close., Companies that need capital and want to grow, but already are leveraged to the max, have options other than selling equity; they may want to consider a strategic alliance or [...]

GE Consumer Finance is entering several Central American countries by buying just under half of Panama's BAC International Bank Inc. The Stamford, Conn., unit of General Electric Co. said Thursday [...]

Korea offers great potential for long-term investors, such as pension funds, as it reaps the effect of improvements in other overseas economies, according to Schroder Investment Management. The Korean economy [...]

Energoinvest is an unusual phenomenon in a transition country like Bosnia and Herzegovina. In spite of all this young state's business infrastructure shortcomings, Energoinvest is successfully coping with competition and [...]

A remarkable economic transition is underway in South East Europe ... There is hardly a month without a major international conference somewhere on the subject of economic reform in South [...]

The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) promotes the transition process primarily through the financing of sound investment projects in Azerbaijan. By the end of 2002, the EBRD had [...]

As a destination for foreign direct investment and business opportunities, the Odessa Region is an area of enormous potential, but as elsewhere in Ukraine, of some complexity. In such an [...]

Developing countries have been relatively successful in attracting foreign investments since the end of the 1980s. However, very few investments are being made in the development of infrastructure, which is crucial in sustaining high economic growth rates. Statistics show that since the end of the 1980s, foreign investment inflows in the form of private equity and debt financing have averaged over $120 billion annually among the main borrowers. More foreign investments should go to electric power supply, telecommunications networks and transportation systems., If developing economies are to boost infrastructural development, they will need more private backers, writes Toyoo Gyohten of the Institute of International Finance Emerging economies have been successful in attracting [...]

Scandinavian pension managers are increasingly making foreign investments. Danish pension funds have growing, but still small, international stakes, but Swedish, Finnish, and Norwegian funds are just starting to make international investments. Ingenior-Sammenslutningens Pensionskasse managing director Paul Bruniche Olsen explained that the Danish fund does not want to be overdependent on the country's economy.