Money Machine Archives - Weijian Shan https://weijian-shan.com/staging/1046/category/articles/money-machine/ Economist, businessman, author of Out of the Gobi Tue, 25 Apr 2023 08:46:35 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 How private equity whiz Weijian Shan went from penniless in the Gobi desert to orchestrating a takeover of one of China’s biggest banks https://fortune.com/2023/02/09/private-equity-weijian-shan-chinas-biggest-banks/#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:03:13 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11881 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.

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]]> Mao’s former barefoot doctor recalls sole foreign takeover of Chinese bank https://www.scmp.com/business/banking-finance/article/3208605/maos-former-barefoot-doctor-recalls-sole-foreign-takeover-chinese-bank#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:02:02 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11884 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

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]]> 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

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]]> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/my-review-shan-weijians-highly-revealing-new-china-book-steven-irvine/?trackingId=tIvXhsNhRSmuk3Fzh9bFfA%3D%3D#new_tab Mon, 06 Mar 2023 09:01:00 +0000 https://weijian-shan.com/?p=11891 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, [...]

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]]> 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.

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