WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES a decade make? In 1997, communism in central and eastern Europe was still a recent memory. Privatization had begun just a few years before, and even the biggest companies were still finding their feet. Some firms from the region had started to spread their wings abroad but the companies they were buying were tiny. According to Dealogic, the top three cross-border M&A deals to be announced in 1997 where the acquirer was a CEE company reached a cumulative total of just $161 million.
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