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By King & Wood Mallesons

On November 2, 2015, General Electric Co. (GE) announced its acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid business. With a total transaction value of €9.7 billion (approximately US$10.6 billion), the transaction marks GE’s largest acquisition to date in the industrial sector. After obtaining approvals from regulators in over 20 jurisdictions including the U.S., China, India, Japan, Brazil and in several countries within Europe, GE successfully completed the transaction. The China-related acquisition is a crucial part of the deal, which will have a major impact on the electric power and electricity network industries within China.
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作者：金杜律师事务所

2015年11月2日，通用电气公司（简称“GE”）宣布成功完成对阿尔斯通电力与电网业务的收购。这是GE迄今为止在工业领域最大的一笔收购，交易的总成交额为97亿欧元(约106亿美元)。GE在包括欧洲、美国、中国、印度、日本和巴西在内的20多个国家和地区通过了监管部门的反垄断审查后，最终成功完成该交易。中国区域部分的收购是此次交易中的重要部分，将对中国的电力电网行业产生重大影响。
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作者：竺农范 金杜律师事务所专利部

知识产权管理的概念大约始于80年代初，最初都是从产品开始，有了产品之后，继而会考虑要保护产品的知识产权，例如保护其商标权、专利权、版权等等。当时，知识产权保护对公司来说是被动的，是不得不做的事情；之后，随着经济的发展，公司的知识产权管理战略变得越来越灵活，可以随着公司经营管理战略的变化而不断进行调整，战略本身也可以作为公司赚钱的一种模式。
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By Susan Ning, Ji Kailun and Yin Ranran

Only 10 days after its conditional clearance of the Alpha V/Savio deal1, the Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) published, on 10 November 2011, the third conditional merger clearance of this year approving the proposed joint venture between General Electric (China) Ltd. (GE China) and China Shenhua Coal to Liquid and Chemical Co., Ltd. (CSCLC)2. 

This is the first conditional decision relating to a Chinese Stated-owned enterprise (SOE) and the number of MOFCOM’s conditional clearance decisions is lifted to nine in total.  According to MOFCOM’s announcement, the review process lasted for about 7 months starting from April 13 when the notification was first submitted to MOFCOM.

Continue Reading MOFCOM Imposed Conditions on SOEs – GE/Shenhua Deal