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WH Group Limited: Initial Public Offering Road Show
Stephen R. FoersterCase IVEY-9B15N003-EFinance, StrategyAn equity research analyst is preparing to attend a road show presentation by WH Group Limited, the world’s largest pork company headquartered in Hong Kong, concerning its upcoming initial public offering. She is reviewing the preliminary prospectus as well as other publicly available background information on the company and its two core subsidiaries, Shuanghui International Holdings Inc. and Smithfield Foods Inc., whose recent acquisition was t...Starting at €8.20
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Cadim: The China and India Real Estate Market Entry Decisions
Stephen R. Foerster; Marc FolchCase IVEY-9B09N003-EFinance, StrategyThe president and chief operating officer of Cadim, the real estate arm of the Caisse de Dépôt et Placement du Québec, Canada's largest pension fund management firm, was considering whether Cadim should enter India, China or both on a long-term basis to diversify its global real estate holdings and take advantage of the growth these two countries were experiencing. The fund's investment would potentially amount to hundreds of millions of dollars ...Starting at €8.20
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Sun Life Financial: A Potential Indian Life Insurance Joint Venture
Stephen R. Foerster; Tony S. Frost; Eric Morse; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M046-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to Sun Life Financial: Planning for the Future, product 9B07M045, hones in on Sun Life's decision to re-enter the Indian insurance market.Starting at €8.20
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Shenzhen Development Bank
Jin, Li; Xuan, Yuhai; Bai, X.B. (Xiao-Bing)Case HBS-210020-EFinanceWeijian Shan, Managing Partner of Newbridge Capital, faces a tough decision in regard to his firm's investment in Shenzhen Development Bank, China's fifteenth largest commercial bank. After signing a binding agreement to sell an effective controlling stake in SDB to Newbridge, the government-owned sellers and SDB reneged on the deal and dissolved the transitional management committee appointed by Newbridge. Weijian Shan and his deal team must wor...Starting at €8.20
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China Magic Going Home
Jin, Li; Yi, Zhihong; Jiang, JunCase HBS-211036-EFinanceThe largest Chinese energy company is thinking about a cross-listing back into the mainland stock exchange, after seeing the valuation of comparable companies on the so-called A share market sky-rocketing. We discuss the cause and the consequence of investor sentiment on the cross-listing decision of firms, and the responsibilities of corporate managers to maximize existing shareholder interests through catering to such investor sentiment.Starting at €8.20
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China Development Bank
Jin, Li; Preble, Matthew; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-212001-EFinanceIn May 2011, Chairman Chen Yuan of the China Development Bank (CDB) was thinking back on CDB's financing of a major project between Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras), Brazil's state-owned oil and gas producer and China Petroleum & Chemical Corporation (Sinopec), one of China's largest oil companies. Signed two years earlier, the deal was an oil-for-loan agreement in which Petrobras committed to a 10-year oil supply to Sinopec in exchange for a $...Starting at €8.20
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China's Financial Markets, 2007
Jin, Li; Huo, BingxingCase HBS-208147-EFinanceProvides an overview of capital markets in mainland China in 2007, evaluating the up-to-date performance of key components of the markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy.Starting at €8.20
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MTR Corporation Limited: Measuring the Cost of Capital
Larry Wynant; Stephen R. Foerster; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07N001-EFinance, StrategyTwo MTR Corporation (MTRC) managers are participating in a week-long program in financial management. For their next class, they need to calculate the cost of capital for MTRC. First, they will review the concepts of investor expectations and cost of capital. Then, they must calculate the cost of capital by using the financial statements provided to them by the instructor. The two managers discuss their understanding of these concepts as they pre...Starting at €8.20
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Sun Life Financial: Planning for the Future
Stephen R. Foerster; Tony S. Frost; Eric Morse; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M045-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe Sun Life Financial cases allow students to take a cross-enterprise leadership approach in examining Sun Life's effort to re-enter the Indian insurance market. Set in March 1999, a vice-president in Sun Life's international team is looking at international expansion options. In its domestic market, Sun Life, relative to its peers, has had below average financial performance. With the domestic insurers demutualizing (i.e. converting from a poli...Starting at €8.20
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Stock Reform of Shenzhen Development Bank
Jin, Li; Liao, Li; Sesia, Aldo; Wu, JianyiCase HBS-211080-EFinanceShenzhen Development Bank, China's first publicly traded company, was undergoing the non-tradable share reform. Its current controlling shareholder, private equity firm Newbridge Capital LLC, needs to negotiate with its diverse minority shareholders to find a compromise on the terms of the conversion of the non-tradable shares held by Newbridge into tradable shares. Further delay in implementing this reform will put Shenzhen Development Bank into...Starting at €8.20