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Article: Houlihan Lokey Plans Extensive Expansion into China: Firm's China staff numbers could rival those of US operations.(Houlihan Lokey Howard and Zukin Inc)
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- Investment Dealers' Digest
- Article date:
- July 30, 2007
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As a college student, James Zukin worked in Beatnik poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's San Francisco bookstore, where he would give visiting poets free copies of their own books - much to the disdain of the store's owner.
These days, Zukin, co-founder of Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin and its Asia chairman, hands out different kinds of books - case studies of notable corporate restructurings - to Chinese government officials eager to learn about the mechanics of free markets.
Enron is the most popular case study, and Worldcom may be the second most popular, says Zukin, adding that the case studies - translated into Chinese - are just one of many forms of ...