Published on: January 30 2020 Contributed by: Jerry Koh (Joint Managing Partner) – Allen & Gledhill LLP (Singapore)
*This article was originally distributed on January 23, 2020 Dear Clients and Friends, 新年快乐! We wish you a healthy, happy and prosperous year ahead! We ring in 2020 on a more positive note than where we started 2019. In the past year, a slowdown in manufacturing has weighed on economic growth both globally and in … Continued
Published on: January 29 2020 Contributed by: Vincent A. Mercier (Partner) - Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg LLP (Toronto)
The official Annual Report under the Investment Canada Act (ICA) for the fiscal year 2018-19 was released at the end of 2019. This document sets out various statistics and other noteworthy developments during that time frame (i.e., April 1, 2018 to March 31, 2019) relating to the two review processes under the ICA: the “net … Continued
Published on: January 8 2020 Contributed by: Matthew T. Carpenter and Daniel Bulaevsky, Co-Editors, XBMA Review
Executive Summary/Highlights Global M&A volume approached US$3.9 trillion in 2019, the third highest annual total in the last decade, despite increasing global economic and political headwinds. Strong economic growth, low interest rates, record amounts of private equity dry powder and the availability of corporate cash fueled global M&A in 2019. The boom was strongest in … Continued
Published on: December 18 2019 Contributed by: Adam Li and Fang He, partners at JunHe and members of XBMA's Legal Roundtable. Mr. Li is a leading expert in international mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and international financial transactions involving Chinese companies. Ms. He has broad experience in M&A, outbound investment, foreign direct investment, and private equity.
Cross-Border M&A and Protectionism – A Review of Laws and Practice in China Daniel He, JunHe LLP 1. The New PRC Foreign Investment Law On March 15, 2019, the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC” or “China”) approved the PRC Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) which will be implemented on January 1, … Continued
Published on: December 9 2019 Contributed by: Martin Lipton, Founding Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
Some Thoughts for Boards of Directors in 2020 By Martin Lipton, Steven A. Rosenblum, Karessa L. Cain, and Kathleen I. Tatum December 9, 2019 In hindsight, 2019 may come to be viewed as a watershed year in the evolution of corporate governance. After years of growing alarm about endemic short-termism, the sustainability and competitiveness of … Continued
Published on: November 21 2019 Contributed by: José Antonio Payet Puccio (Partner), Carlos A. Patrón (Partner) and David Kuroiwa H. (Senior Associate) - Payet Rey Cauvi Pérez Abogados (Lima).
Mr. Payet is a member of XBMA’s Legal Roundtable.
The Peruvian Government has enacted a new mandatory and suspensory clearance regime, which will come into force next year. Previously, Peruvian legislation only imposed mandatory pre-notification and clearance requirements for vertical or horizontal concentrations occurring in the fields of electricity generation, transmission or distribution.[1] Summary Breakdown Scope. The new merger control regime will apply to … Continued
Published on: October 16 2019 Contributed by: Matthew T. Carpenter and Daniel Bulaevsky, Co-Editors, XBMA Review
Executive Summary/Highlights: In Q3 2019, global M&A volume was US$784 billion, reaching US$2.8 trillion for the year to date. Global M&A volume could, based on the current pace, exceed US$3.5 trillion in annual volume in 2019 for the fifth time in the last decade. But there are signs of a slow-down. U.S. M&A volume, the … Continued
Published on: August 2 2019 Contributed by: Christian Herbst, Partner, Schoenherr (Vienna).
Amendment laws implementing the Shareholders’ Rights Directive: Action Points for Boards of Austrian listed companies On 23 July 2019, amendments of the Stock Corporation Act and Stock Exchange Act implementing the Shareholder Rights Directive II (2017/828) entered into force. Directive 2017/628/EU to encourage long-term shareholder engagement was implemented with the aim to minimize the administrative … Continued
Published on: July 5 2019 Contributed by: Matthew T. Carpenter and Daniel Bulaevsky, Co-Editors, XBMA Review
Executive Summary/Highlights: In Q2 2019, global M&A volume reached US$1 trillion for the quarter and surpassed US$2 trillion for the year to date. Global M&A volume in 2019 is on pace to reach the US$4 trillion mark for the second consecutive year and only the third time in the last decade. The significant global deal … Continued
Published on: May 9 2019 Contributed by: Adam O. Emmerich, Robin Panovka, Raaj S. Narayan and Matthew T. Carpenter, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York)
Cross-Border M&A Guide Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz recently published the inaugural edition of their Cross-Border M&A Guide, which is available here. This new Cross-Border M&A Guide covers the key U.S. legal considerations not only for acquisitions of U.S. companies by non-U.S. companies (or “inbound” M&A transactions), but also for acquisitions of non-U.S. companies, including … Continued
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