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Do you know who owned ARM before? It certainly wasn't some nebulous cloud named "Britain". It was mostly large institutional investors in the US.

You don't buy a company the size of ARM at such enormous expense intending to ruin it.

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Don't underestimate humanity's ability to ruin things. :D

Ruining it is never the _intention_, but it happens often enough that people are right to worry when a company gets bought out.

The timezone differences are going to be an issue. We have a couple of Japanese guys in the same team as me, and its tough going. We have a small window in the morning to align on projects and if we ever need to do face to face meetings, we are all reluctant as its a killer long haul flight where you're guaranteed three days of jet lag.

True, but Japanese companies aren't prone to ruin foreign companies they've acquired by relocating the HQ to Japan.

They do so by bringing Japan into the foreign HQ, i.e. the acquiree's top execs are replaced by the acquirer's execs.

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