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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

2024 Insights: Corporate Trends

Global M&A Activity Endures Headwinds in 2023 and Displays Resilience Going Into 2024 - Despite market headwinds, dealmakers have looked to carveouts, spin-offs, joint ventures and other creative deal structures to engage...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Demystifying China’s Merger Review Process

China’s merger clearance authority plays a critical role in global M&A, even for deals that have few obvious ties to China. Particularly in the technology area, China is often the last hurdle to clear. Moreover, unlike those...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Investment Opportunities Abound in Japan’s M&A Market

The outlook for inbound mergers and acquisitions opportunities in Japan is bright with the yen at a 20-year low. The yen’s recent plunge to around 135 to the U.S. dollar has made Japanese assets approximately 20% cheaper...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

China Publishes Draft Amendments to Anti-Monopoly Law

For the first time since China’s Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) came into force in 2008, the government is proposing major changes to its centerpiece antitrust legislation. On January 2, 2020, the State Administration for Market...more

Jones Day

China Further Opens its Market with New "Foreign Investment Law"

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The Situation: The new PRC Foreign Investment Law ("FIL"), as well as its Implementing Regulations ("Implementing Regulations"), took effect on January 1, 2020. In addition to the FIL and the Implementing Regulations, the...more

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China’s New Foreign Investment Law: What’s New and What’s Next

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On 15 March 2019, the Second Session of the 13th National People’s Congress approved the Foreign Investment Law of the People’s Republic of China to go into effect on 1 January 2020. With it, China’s legal framework...more

Dechert LLP

Global Private Equity Newsletter - Winter 2019 Edition: Global Private Equity Outlook 2019

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Global private equity market continues its ascent. Buoyant leveraged global buyout activity is being sustained generally by a combination of: In 2018, we saw the largest number of private equity backed buy-out deals in...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Hidden Risks of MOFCOM’s Simplified Procedure

Three years ago, China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) introduced a simplified merger review procedure to reduce the review time for transactions that do not pose significant competitive or industrial policy concerns in...more

McDermott Will & Emery

International News: Focus on Health Care - Fall 2017

Nationalism and Cross-Border M&A: Navigating Populist Politics in Deal Making - More than half of the G20 countries voted-in campaigns that focused on harming foreign, outside interests as a means to strengthen domestic...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

A New Era of China's Foreign Investment Regime

On September 3, 2016, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) adopted the Decision on Revising Four Laws, Including the Law of the People’s Republic of China on Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprises (NPC...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"MOFCOM Cracking Down on Failures to Notify Qualifying Mergers, Acquisitions and Joint Ventures"

China’s Anti-Monopoly Law requires businesses to notify transactions to the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) for merger control review, so long as the parties meet certain revenue thresholds and the transaction involves a change...more

K&L Gates LLP

What is Simplified under Anti-Monopoly Filing Procedures for Simple M&A Cases?

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The Ministry of Commerce in China (“MOFCOM”) has promulgated a series of implementation regulations as an effort to improve the enforcement of the Anti-Monopoly Law (“AML”), among which two regulations specifically relate to...more

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China’s Merger Control Rules Changing: MOFCOM Publishes New Draft Regulations on Remedies and Simple Cases

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China’s Ministry of Commerce recently issued two new draft regulations. The first provides a wider range of potential remedies to obtain the clearance of a concentration (e.g., a merger, acquisition, joint venture, etc.);...more

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