In an interview with Andrea Bernardi, Senior Lecturer in Employment and Organization Studies at Oxford Brookes University, Shan spoke about the context of the Asian financial crisis and the international rescue efforts, and how private equity can be a force for good ad create value. Money Games is a great book (more than what the title could let you guess) that a diverse readership will find interesting: economists, political scientists, businessmen, policymakers.
How private equity whiz Weijian Shan went from penniless in the Gobi desert to orchestrating a takeover of one of China’s biggest banks
Private equity is by its nature and up and down business, but few tales hold a candle to that of Weijian Shan, the Chinese-born dealmaker who clinched one of the most unlikely and successful deals of the early 21st century.
Mao’s former barefoot doctor recalls sole foreign takeover of Chinese bank
Opportunity to buy control of a bank in China, home to the fast economic growth in the world, was certainly appealing, Shan Weijian says in new book Money Machine
My review of Shan Weijian’s highly-revealing new China book MONEY MACHINE. It’s a gripping fly-on-the-wall account of Newbridge’s famed and landmark acquisition of a controlling stake in Shenzhen Development Bank; the turnaround of that NPL-festooned financial institution; and its eventual sale by Newbridge to Ping An. A must read for anyone interested in China dealmaking, local government machinations and the culture that powers Peter Ma’s Chinese financial conglomerate Ping An.