cross-border M&A

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By Jinsong Zhang, Wei Kao, Zhengyi Pan King & Wood Mallesons‘ Finance & Capital Markets group

On September 13, 2017, U.S. President Donald Trump issued an executive order blocking a Chinese-backed private equity firm headquartered in Palo Alto, California, Canyon Bridge Capital Partners Inc. (“Canyon Bridge”), from buying a Hillsboro, Oregon-based chipmaker, Lattice Semiconductor Corporation (“Lattice”), for $1.3 billion, sending a signal that the U.S. will oppose China-related takeover deals that particularly involve in the high-tech sector.
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Contributed by: Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz (New York) and King & Wood Mallesons (Beijing)

M&A was robust in 2014, hitting several noteworthy post-crisis high-water marks: total global volume reached US$3.5 trillion, cross-border volume reached US$1.3 trillion (37% of the total) and cross-border M&A involving U.S. companies reached US$770 billion (45% of which was incoming). Acquirors from Germany, France, Canada, Japan and the United Kingdom accounted for 67% of the incoming acquisitions into the U.S., and acquirors from China, India and other emerging economies accounted for approximately 7%. Cross-border deals announced in 2014 included some of the year’s largest, including many above US$10 billion and a number of real blockbusters.
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By WACHTELL, LIPTON, ROSEN & KATZ：Adam O. Emmerich Robin Panovka David A. Katz；King & Wood Mallesons：Wang Kaiding  Jing Gang  Wang Lianghua

More than 40% of global M&A in 2012 involved acquirors and targets in different countries, including $170 billion of acquisitions in the U.S. by non-U.S. acquirors. Given the continuing accumulation of U.S. Dollars in emerging economies, many expect the trend to continue as Dollars are re-invested in the U.S. Natural resources will continue to be an important part of this story, including in the U.S., where substantial non-U.S. investment has been an important trend, as well as in resource-rich developed nations such as Canada and Australia, where non-domestic investment has lately been highly controversial.
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