Country profiles: Lessons in privatization

Despite difficult market conditions, there were significant privatization successes in 1995. In general, privatizers were more circumspect in their approach to the pricing, sizing, placement and timing of offers. Euromoney journalists report on six countries' efforts in difficult markets, and their future plans - followed by a list of major planned privatizations.

INDONESIA

Yearning to bring it back home

After two years of protracted negotiations, Merrill Lynch earlier this year celebrated its newly opened joint-venture securities operation in Jakarta. Its liaison with local tycoon Hashim Djojohadikusmo, whose PT Persada Kian Pasti Lestari owns 20% of the new firm, had helped it win Indonesia’s two most coveted privatization mandates to date – global coordinator on Indosat’s $1.16 billion offering in 1994 and joint global coordinator on last November’s $1.6 billion transaction for PT Telkom.

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