Hong Kong’s richest and most famous resident blanketed two newspapers with adverts last week, urging young people to end violent protests that have rocked the city since June.
But even as Li Ka-shing attempted to influence the mood at home, his family was about to strike the latest in a series of deals that shifts its holdings overseas and away from the place where his rags-to-riches story took place.
On Monday, one of Mr Li’s family companies, CK Asset Holdings, agreed to buy the UK’s largest listed pubs and brewery group, Greene King, in a deal worth £4.6bn, including debt.
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