About

The International Institute for the Study of Cross-Border Investment and M&A is a joint venture between the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University, the Stern School of Business at New York University, and Judge Business School at the University of Cambridge.

The purpose of the Institute is to promote the high-level study and analysis of cross-border mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments. The Institute provides a forum for pragmatic, de-politicized analysis of current market dynamics that fuel business expansion through cross-border M&A, and of the financial, legal, governmental and societal frameworks that facilitate or hinder such activity. Among other activities, the Institute holds a series of annual symposia to address strategic and tactical issues related to international cross-border mergers, acquisitions and strategic investments, and the underlying forces, constraints, trends and developments that are shaping or impeding important cross-border transactions.

The Institute has held a series of symposia, starting with its inaugural symposium in Beijing in 2008, and followed by symposia in Cambridge, UK, (2009) in New York (2010 and 2013), Shanghai (2014), London (2016) Silicon Valley (2017), Paris (2018), and in Singapore (2020).