Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xi
Author's Note xiii
Preface: Big Money Legends xv
Chapter 1 Money Talks--My Path to Private Equity 1
Chapter 2 Project Safe 15
Chapter 3 White Knight 31
Chapter 4 New Faces at the Table 53
Chapter 5 Deadline Looming 73
Chapter 6 The Ambassador 97
Chapter 7 Presidential Visit 111
Chapter 8 The Chairman Takes Charge 133
Chapter 9 Daewoo Crisis 147
Chapter 10 Black Rain 161
Chapter 11 Ultimatum 175
Chapter 12 Sign It or Forget It 191
Chapter 13 The Final Sprint 213
Chapter 14 The Hard Part 235
Chapter 15 Change Agent 251
Chapter 16 Lion's Chase 267
Chapter 17 It's a Race 285
Epilogue 309
Appendix - A Primer on Commercial Banking 311
Index 317
Shan, Weijian [Àú]
WEIJIAN SHAN is chairman and CEO of PAG, a private equity firm. Prior to PAG, he was a partner at TPG, a private equity firm based in San Francisco, and co-managing partner at TPG Asia (formerly known as Newbridge Capital). He led a number of landmark transactions, including the acquisitions of Korea First Bank and China's Shenzhen Development Bank, both of which made his investors billions of dollars in profits and were made into case studies by Harvard Business School. Previously, Shan was a managing director at JP Morgan, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a farm laborer in China's Gobi Desert. He holds an MA and a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and an MBA from the University of San Francisco. He studied English at Beijing Institute of Foreign Trade (now University of International Business and Economics), where he also taught as a faculty member. He received no formal secondary education.