Macquarie 'very excited' about Japan carve-out opportunities, Asia CEO says

TOKYO -- Australian financial services company Macquarie Group sees opportunities to help Japanese companies spin off assets to improve efficiency, Asia CEO Verena Lim said.

"If you speak to my colleagues in Macquarie Asset Management from the Japan office, I think they're also very excited about potential corporate carve-outs, including infrastructure assets or noncore subsidiaries," Lim told Nikkei recently in her first interview with Japanese media. "The general trend of increasing corporate carve-outs in Japan has considerably heightened consciousness of optimizing ownership among many corporates."