May 2007 decisions Veda Advantage acquired by PEP and Merrill Lynch for $1 billion ING buys Remuera Gardens Retirement Village and Epsom Village… … AMP’s…
Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Foreign investment in Aotearoa/New Zealand. Legislation, commentaries, the Overseas Investment Commission, the Overseas Investment Office and analyses.
April 2007 decisions Canadian-led consortium purchases Yellow Pages Ironbridge acquires EnviroWaste Services from Fulton Hogan for $379 million Failed takeover of APN News and Media…
March 2007 decisions One application refused – to buy Upper Mataura Angler’s Lodge Allco takes remaining 50% of Strategic Finance and restructures ownership … ……
February 2007 decisions One application refused Blue Star Print Group sold to CHAMP Private Equity for $173 million Wesfarmers of Australia buys insurance broker Crombie…
January 2007 decisions One application refused Pepsi buys Bluebird Foods for $245 million from Burns Philp Independent Liquor purchased by PEP/CCMP led consortium for $1.25b…
January to December 2007 Overseas Investment Office Decisions Commentary and Index prepared by CAFCA (Note: the OIO decisions quoted here can be viewed here) Contents…
December 2006 decisions Suncorp-Metway of Australia buys Promina Group for $8.94 billion Another private equity buyout of aged care facility: CVC buys DCA Cavotec buys…
November 2006 decisions Bunnings buys property in Stoke, Nelson, for new store Macquarie buys two further properties in Plunket Avenue, Manukau Hong Kong investor buys…
Overseas Investment Act Review 2005 The Overseas Investment legislation underwent major changes in 2005. The new Act went into effect as from August 2005. CAFCA…
October 2006 decisions Hancock buys Carter Holt Harvey’s forests Takeover of Kathmandu clothing completed Bacardi buys local Whisky firm, 42 South Nikko Principal Investments buys…
September 2006 decisions Maruha of Japan gets approval to acquire 5,000 tonnes of fishing quota Rank Group buys out other shareholders in Burns Philp Macquarie…
August 2006 decisions GE buys the mortgage portfolio of St George Bank (“Superbank”) First Data Corporation of the U.S.A. has approval to take over Peace…
July 2006 decisions Application refused: commercial purchaser of Queenstown rural land GE buying Custom Fleet leasing company from BNZ … … and ORIX of Japan…
June 2006 decisions One application refused: purchase of 7 ha. Hawkes Bay vineyard Transpacific buys Waste Management New Zealand More aged care to Investment companies:…
May 2006 decisions PEP buys Griffins from Danone Qualcare acquires Eversley Elder Care from Presbyterian Support Macquarie Goodman leases more Manukau land to sub-lease to…