COVID-19 gives rise to M&A opportunities for SE Asian firms amid crisis

COVID-19 gives rise to M&A opportunities for SE Asian firms amid crisis

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Winter is coming, cautioned Southeast Asia’s venture capitalists one year ago. But how cold 2020 would get! By the time COVID-19 reached our shores in March this year, entire industries had sunk deep into a frosty economic blizzard. Even today, many startups continue to find themselves caught in ice.