When a consortium of investors, including Carlyle Group, proposed to take Focus Media – a Chinese US-listed advertising group – private on Monday for $3.5bn, it may not have realised that this would be China’s biggest ever leveraged buyout. There have only been nine LBOs of Chinese companies above $250m, according to Dealogic data. The second biggest came in 2008 when Bahrain bank Arcapita took private China’s wind energy group Honiton Energy for $2bn. Why so few?
當一個包括凱雷集團(Carlyle Group)在內的投資財團週一向分衆傳媒(Focus Media)提出35億美元的私有化收購要約時,他們可能沒有意識到,這將成爲中國規模最大的一起槓桿收購(LBO)。分衆傳媒是一家在美國上市的中國廣告集團。Dealogic數據顯示,高於2.5億美元的中國企業槓桿收購案僅出現過9起。第二大槓桿收購案發生在2008年,當時巴林的Arcapita銀行以20億美元收購了中國的風能集團宏騰能源(Honiton Energy)。中國企業槓桿收購爲何如此罕見?