Mergers and Acquisitions

C Y Huang, Chairman of the Taiwan Mergers & Acquisitions and Private Equity Council (MAPE) spoke to David Tring about the Council's role in assisting cross-strait investments, the deals they have worked on and outlook for relations

Identification of intangible assets clarified for mergers of enterprises not under the same control

Mergers and acquisitions involving material asset reorganisation will be subject to greater scrutiny under new Regulations, which will increase due diligence costs for businesses in China

If, in the process of the CSRC's review of an M&A transaction, the listed company or the transaction counterparty that accounts for 20% or more of the transaction amount is found to have been involved in insider trading, the CSRC will terminate the review process.

The equity of real property enterprises, foreign holding companies, foreign-invested venture capital investment enterprises and foreign-invested private equity enterprises is not allowed to be used for investment in another foreign-invested enterprise.

Chinese outbound investment has grown exponentially in the past two years, but as domestic companies become more ambitious, does Hong Kong still have a role to play?

Zhang Ying of Jun He Law Offices gives a summary of the key trends in China's busy M&A market and assesses the impact of the increasing internationalisation of the renminbi

Anti-monopoly is still a new concept in China, but transactional reviews are increasing in importance as the country ascends to the world stage. But it is still unclear what triggers a review, what the process involves and how reviews are changing

Private capital encouraged to the oil product market.