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
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Down rounds—equity financing rounds where the company’s valuation is lower than at least one of its previous rounds of financing—have been rare in the sellers’ market of the past few years, where high valuations fueled by an...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
In Part I of this article, we discussed the possibility of PE investors, their portfolio companies, or their respective counterparties invoking material adverse change (MAC) or force majeure (FM) clauses to be relieved of...more
In Part I of this article, we discussed the possibility of PE investors, their portfolio companies, or their respective counterparties invoking material adverse change (MAC) or force majeure (FM) clauses to be relieved of...more
The COVID-19 (the official name of the 2019 novel coronavirus) outbreak is likely to have an effect on the PE landscape in Asia and on anyone with interests in Asia. In this three-part article, we examine how PE buyers,...more