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Hong Kong SFC proposes changes to the Takeovers Code

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The Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission (the SFC) launched a consultation on proposed amendments to the Codes on Takeovers and Mergers and Share Buy‑backs (the Codes)....more

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The Not-So-Silk Road: The Proliferating Regulatory Obstacles to Chinese Investment in the U.S.

All companies engaged in M&A activity in the United States must plan for enhanced scrutiny from an increasingly aggressive DOJ and FTC, but non-U.S. companies, particularly Chinese companies, must also reckon with another...more

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2021 Transactional Year in Review and 2022 Forecast: New Data Privacy Law in China

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China passed its new Data Security Law ("DSL") in June 2021 and its new Personal Information Protection Law ("PIPL") in August 2021. Both new laws impact every business operating in or doing business with China, coupling...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.16.2021 | Top Story: Big Tech Critic and Antitrust Scholar Khan Named New FTC Chair

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Fresh off her Senate approval as newest commissioner to the Federal Trade Commission, Lina Khan—“a prominent critic of Big Tech”—has been named chair of the Commission. President Biden’s decision to make the 32-year-old Khan...more

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Financial Daily Dose 6.1.2021 | Top Story: China Changes Two-Child Policy in Hopes of Staving Off Coming Economic Crisis

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In a significant departure from decades of restrictive population management efforts, China’s ruling party will now permit couples to have three children—“ending a two-child policy that has failed to raise the country’s...more

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Financial Daily Dose 3.19.2021 | Top Story: NFL Inks 10-Year Media Deal Worth $110 Billion

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The NFL has scored a new media deal spread across outlets from CBS, NBC, and Fox to ESPN and Amazon worth nearly $110 billion over 11 years, “nearly doubling the value of its previous contracts” and “cement[ing]” the league’s...more

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The Short-Term Impact of Coronavirus on Deal Activity

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Speculation about the impact of coronavirus and recent stock market volatility, including Thursday’s worst decline since the 1987 market crash, on M&A activity has intensified. Members of Ballard Spahr’s Mergers &...more

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Global M&A Trends that Could Propel the Robust M&A Market through 2019

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At a recent media roundtable in New York, partners from Hogan Lovells’ global M&A and Regulatory practices outlined trends that could propel the healthy deal environment forward through 2019....more

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CFIUS’s Concerns With Chinese Investments and Acquisitions in the U.S.

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On January 2, 2018, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) rejected Ant Financial’s plan to acquire U.S. money transfer company MoneyGram International over national security concerns. According to...more

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M&A Watch: Ant Financial and MoneyGram Terminate Merger Agreement Due to CFIUS Concerns

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MoneyGram International Inc. and Ant Financial Services Group recently announced the termination of their agreement providing for the acquisition of Texas-based money transfer company MoneyGram by China-based Ant Financial...more

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EU & Competition Law Update – September 2017

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On the 13th September 2017 Jean-Claude Juncker, the European Commission President, unveiled a framework for investment screening for certain foreign mergers in his “State of the Union” address to the European Parliament. ...more

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Your Daily Dose of Financial News

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The weekend’s business news was dominated by the word that AT&T has agreed to buy Time Warner for $85.4 billion in the biggest yet in a series of telecomm mergers....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Manatt Digital Media - May 2016

In this newsletter, we hear from Jacob Carlson on the latest M&A happenings in the world of Media and Entertainment, with particular attention to hot-button issues such as VR/AR, live streaming, and eSports. Viewed...more

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