{"id":37160,"date":"2025-07-31T15:35:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37160\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T15:35:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T15:35:09","slug":"japans-dealmaking-machine-revs-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/37160\/","title":{"rendered":"Japan\u2019s dealmaking machine revs up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-component=\"paragraph\" class=\"css-1l5amll e1y9q0ei0\">The corporate raiders of the private-equity (PE) industry have been memorably compared to invading barbarians. But the industry is more usefully described as a machine, which converts investors\u2019 money into deals, deals into profitable divestments (or \u201cexits\u201d), and exits into investor returns. When running well, this contraption gathers a momentum of its own. Profitable exits generate handsome returns, which tempt investors to pump in more capital, enabling further dealmaking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The corporate raiders of the private-equity (PE) industry have been memorably compared to invading barbarians. But the industry&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[45,27385,49,48,2312,46,1968,2454,927],"class_list":["post-37160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-buttonwood","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-columns","tag-economy","tag-finance-economics","tag-japan","tag-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}