In an article for Business Today, HBR Senior Editor Anand P. Raman says companies from China, Brazil, and Russia - which are cash-rich and less leveraged than Indian companies - will take the lead in future outbound M&A transactions. Chinese and Latin American companies will use M&A to internationalise rather than globalise. They will try to buy several businesses in the same country or in neighbouring countries instead of hankering after one company with worldwide operations...In 2008, Brazilian companies acquired 23 more enterprises to create pan-Latin American leaders, or multi-Latinas. Three, companies will acquire more small and midsize businesses overseas instead of acquiring giants. Indian companies may not have much of a choice; they’re busy digesting the big companies they took over before the financial crisis erupted and so will focus on small and strategic acquisitions. The shift has also become perceptible in China since global acquisitions left both TCL and Lenovo...