Mergers and Acquisitions

Yuhua Yang of Alliance J&S Law Firm outlines the latest developments that smoothen inbound and outboundM&A transactions and gives advice on doing business with Chinese companies

Beijing Municipality encourages the private sector to establish non-profit hospitals.

A takeover offer of a listed company is no longer required to be submitted to the CSRC but be announced publicly only.

Policies relaxed to make M&A easier.

Policies relaxed to make M&A easier.

The Circular broadens the meaning of "special purpose vehicle" from having financing as its objective to investment and financing as its objectives.

More foreign-invested projects have been removed from the Shanghai FTZ negative list.

The merger process in China can be long and painful. This is primarily due to the lack of detailed implementing rules and un-reconciled discrepancies among governmental authorities

Tencent's legal director of investments and acquisitions Yan Li discusses with China Law & Practice the importance of keeping up with anti-monopoly, data privacy and industry-specific laws as well as why Shenzhen is the ideal place for entrepreneurship