Since the early 1990s, the U.S. stock exchanges have long been home to many prominent Chinese companies as they tried to attract a wide spectrum of investors and enhance their global profile. Over the past decade, waves of...more
8/26/2024
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Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) ,
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On August 8, 2024, the Nasdaq Stock Market LLC (“Nasdaq”) submitted a proposal to amend its rules regarding penny stocks (i.e., stocks trading below a $1.00 minimum bid price) to make it easier for Nasdaq to delist them....more
On December 2, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed, by unanimous vote, the Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act (“HFCAA” or “Act”). Following enactment, foreign issuers, especially Chinese issuers, and their...more
Since the early 1990s, the U.S. stock exchanges have long been home to many prominent Chinese companies as they tried to attract a wide spectrum of investors and enhance their global profile. However, waves of the reverse...more
8/24/2020
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Stock Exchange
On July 22, 2020, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) published its unconditional approval of the concentration of operators in the Shanghai Mingcha Zhegang Management Consulting Co., Ltd. and...more
On April 20, 2020, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation (“SAMR”) published on its website a notice in relation to the merger review of a simple case of concentration of operators, the Shanghai Mingcha Zhegang...more
Healthcare and education are generally seen as resilient sectors due to their counter-cyclical characteristics. In light of the economic and socio-political instability around the world, recession resistant investments in...more
China’s new foreign investment regime introduced by the Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) and its implementation rules, which came into effect on January 1, 2020, should allow PE funds to invest in Chinese domestic companies on...more
Nine years ago, in July 2006, six different Chinese government agencies issued Opinion 171, the first of a number of circulars imposing limits on foreign investment in the property market in response to concerns about a...more
On January 19, 2015, China’s Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) released for public comment a draft Foreign Investment Law; “FIL”) along with an accompanying explanatory note (“Note”). The deadline for comments is February 17,...more