The Failure of the Nomura and Lehman Brothers Acquisition

Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Economics - Finance, grade: 1,0, , course: Intercultural Communication & Competence, language: English, abstract: The Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. was a former global financial services firm, which worldwide headquarters were located in New York City, United States. Through its subsidiaries the firm provided its services to governments, corporations, institutions and individuals. On September 22 in 2008, after it collapsed because of bankruptcy, the CEO of Nomura Holdings Inc. announced the acquisition of Lehman Brothers’ Asia-Pacific, later also European and Middle-East branches. Nomura is a leading Japanese financial holding company with headquarters in Tokyo, Japan. Like Lehman Brothers it provides various financial services worldwide.