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HONG KONG, Nov 10 (Reuters) - Acclime, a Hong Kong-based advisory and corporate services firm, has selected a handful of bidders to submit binding offers for the company, in a deal that could value the firm at more than $900 million, three people with knowledge of the transaction said. KEY DETAILS Sign up here. CONTEXT Reporting by Kane Wu in Hong Kong and Yantoultra Ngui in Singapore; Editing by Kate Mayberry Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles., opens new tab Kane Wu covers M&A, private equity, venture capital and investment banks in Asia. She tracks the region's most high-profile deals, fundraisings as well as investment trends amidst geopolitical, macroeconomic and regulatory changes. She was nominated for a SOPA Excellence in Business Reporting award for coverage of China regulatory crackdown in 2021. Prior to Reuters, she worked at the Wall Street Journal and also wrote about Asia's loan market for Thomson Reuters Basis Point. She is based in Hong Kong. Yantoultra Ngui is the Southeast Asia Deals Correspondent of Reuters in Singapore, covering M&A and capital market activities in a region that is fast emerging as one of the world’s biggest economies. He previously was a reporter at Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal (WSJ). Notably, he was part of WSJ's team that covered the financial scandal at Malaysian state fund 1MDB, and that won SOPA Excellence in Breaking News award for the coverage of the assassination of Kim Jong Nam, the half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un, in Malaysia in 2018. Yantoultra graduated with an MBA in Finance from Universiti Putra Malaysia (UPM) in 2010.
