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Download this podcast Length 16:50 Download audio file (20091106_kim_woodard_pt3.mp3) OK we are on to Part 3 of our interview with the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team, Kim Woodard.  In this section, we get down into the nitty-gritty of doing deals in China.  Enjoy!

Download this podcast Length 17:54 Download audio file (20091102_kim_woodard_pt2.mp3) We are in the middle of a Podcast interview with Dr. Kim Woodard, the newest addition to the Technomic Asia team here in Shanghai.  Kim’s background includes setting up A.T. Kearney in the early days of China business and running his own boutique M&A consulting firm.  We brought Kim into Technomic to fill out our ability to provide end-to-end services for our clients doing deals in China.  While we saw a bit slow-down in 2009 for M&A in China (and, in fact, around the world), we see that things are really going to pick up in 2010 as companies are looking for aggressive growth opportunities. In this Podcast, I talk with Kim about the practical do’s and don’ts of doing deals in China …

Download this podcast Length 17:03 Download audio file (20091028_kim_woodard_pt1.mp3) Unless you have been living in a hole or the dark side of the moon for the past year, your life has somehow been impacted by the global economic slowdown. You, a friend or a family member have lost a job; your municipal budgets are being cut; heck, your OWN budget is being slashed. It has not been a fun year, even here in China where things are still moving along at a pretty good clip. Though there are signs that things are getting better, I am not convinced we are totally out of the woods yet. But just because we have no guarantee of where things might be going, that doesn’t mean we can crawl back into our hole or retreat to the backside of the moon … no, we need to keep moving forward. And at Technomic Asia, that is exactly what we are doing. For many years, our consulting practice has been involved with foreign companies doing all kinds of alliances in China: from joint ventures to licensing to distribution to acquisitions, we have helped our clients put their alliance strategy together and then execute it. Up until about a year ago, we had been seeing a real upturn in acquisitions in China: the government rules for acquiring companies were loosening up and foreign companies were looking to China for new growth opportunities. Then the bottom fell out of the economy and companies put all that activity on hold. However, as things settle around the globe, multinational companies are looking for ways to grow and China seems a very good place to look for that growth. And one of the methods they are returning to is growth through acquisition. To capture this wave, we have brought in a new team member to Technomic Asia: Dr. Kim Woodard. Kim has had over 30 years of experience in China, first coming here in the 70s in the earliest stages of China’s opening to the West following Nixon’s “Ping Pong Diplomacy”. Armed with a Ph.D. from Stanford, Kim was soon a respected leader of foreign companies’ earliest advances into China. Kim helped establish A.T. Kearney’s China practice and then went on to help big names such as John Deere and AMP establish their China operations. Most recently, Kim had his own firm, Javelin Investments, to assist Western multinationals with acquisitions in China. We wanted to bring Kim in to Technomic Asia to give us the ability to provide a complete M Attached is the first in a series that we will roll out in the coming weeks. I hope you enjoy it!