Asia’s richest man expands empire into Ireland
The multibillionaire who controls Three Mobile has opened a $2 billion business in Dublin as his giant conglomerate moves to break into the aviation market, according to industry sources.
Li Ka-Shing, the richest man in Asia for the past 20 years, has set up a company called Accipiter and is in the process of hiring its senior team.
Accipiter, named after a bird of prey, is a division of Li’s Hong Kong-based Cheung Kong Holdings and the Dublin office will be its European headquarters. It was set up following Cheung Kong’s acquisition of $2 billion-worth of Airbus and Boeing aircraft.
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