Mergers and Acquisitions

Policies relaxed to make M&A easier.

The Circular broadens the meaning of "special purpose vehicle" from having financing as its objective to investment and financing as its objectives.

More foreign-invested projects have been removed from the Shanghai FTZ negative list.

The merger process in China can be long and painful. This is primarily due to the lack of detailed implementing rules and un-reconciled discrepancies among governmental authorities

Tencent's legal director of investments and acquisitions Yan Li discusses with China Law & Practice the importance of keeping up with anti-monopoly, data privacy and industry-specific laws as well as why Shenzhen is the ideal place for entrepreneurship

The growing use of acquisition finance by the private equity industry has led to increasingly complex structures. But regulations make it difficult to provide lenders security and move onshore funds offshore

Issued: July 11 2014Main contents: The Draft abolishes the requirement for prior examination approval of a takeover offer and for the examination and…

Issued: July 11 2014Main contents: The Draft abolishes the requirement for the examination and approval of material purchases, sales and exchanges…

MOFCOM's decision to block the P3 alliance has confirmed the complex nature of merger control in China. Parties need to prepare more for filing in China than in other jurisdictions and have a Plan B in place