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Google’s blindingly fast web search changed the way internet users find information, becoming a household word and earning a massive IPO. Now, the company has its sights set on a tough set of niche consumers: academics...
First, Sinopec’s recent history in Sudan is well-documented. Shortly before Sinopec went to the U.S. capital markets in October 2000 for its IPO, the Asia version of The Wall Street Journal revealed that the company was operating in Sudan. Shortly thereafter, Sinopec dropped its operations in Sudan, a move that has been widely attributed to the company’s concerns that its activities in Sudan would diminish investors’ appetites. And just last week, after a brief hiatus from Sudan, Sinopec resumed operations there with the acquisition of a regional oil company that will...
...hammered that IPO,” Smith College professor and Sudan activist Eric Reeves said...
...There was no firewall,” Reeves said. He said that PetroChina’s investment banker, Goldman Sachs, filed disclosure papers with the SEC revealing that “a full 10 percent of the IPO proceeds went directly to China National Petroleum Company for use however, wherever they wanted...
...parent company retained a 90 percent stake in PetroChina even after the IPO, the Associated Press reported...