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MOFCOM has announced its conditional clearance on MediaTek Inc's 4 billion USD acquisition of MStar Semiconductor Inc.

At the end of 2013 and in early 2014, the Chinese government issued a series of laws, regulations and policies on the regulation of private investment funds.

Overseas merger & acquisition (M&A) provides an effective approach for Chinese companies to embrace the global economy and diversify their portfolio across the world.

China's consumer sector entered a period of transition in 2025, marked by shifting consumption patterns, evolving regulatory expectations, and ongoing portfolio realignments across the industry.

Foreign companies involved in non-Chinese mergers need to be aware of scrutiny by the Chinese anti-monopoly authority MOFCOM and possible conditional measures that can be imposed, especially if the merged companies provide key raw materials to China.

Shanghai quietly launched a new pilot programme, RMB Qualified Foreign Limited Partner (RQFLP), towards the end of 2012 to permit qualified foreign fund managers and asset management companies to raise offshore RMB from offshore investors to invest in RMB private equity funds set up in Shanghai.

2009 proved to be a pivotal year in China's regulatory development of its nascent private equity market.

Previously, overseas lenders found it difficult to get a PRC entity to guarantee or provide onshore security for loans made to that PRC entity's offshore affiliate.

On 8 September 2006, the revised Rules on Mergers and Acquisitions of Domestic Enterprises by Foreign Investors (the New Rules) replaced earlier provisional rules issued in 2003 (the Provisional Rules).

On 18 May 2010, a well-known multinational investment group paid RMB173 million (approximately US$25.4 million) in taxes to the tax authority in the city of Jiangdu in the Jiangsu Province of China.

Amendments to the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML) by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress took effect on 1 August.

On March 11, 2019, Nvidia Corporation (a US-based developer of graphics processing units (GPUs)) announced its intention to acquire Mellanox Technologies, a leading supplier of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand...

Pipelines are rebuilding and financing conditions have stabilised, prompting renewed portfolio action.

Since China enacted the Anti-Monopoly Law ("AML") in 2008, the government has centralized merger review authority at the national level.

Many West European and US companies have thinned out their ranks of middle management in the never-ending pursuit of shareholder value. A China project is likely to be more time intensive and involved (and therefore expensive) than the foreign company initially forecasts. For this reason many foreign investors in China face difficulties in assembling a successful business project team to implement the project. Part I discusses the assembling of an effective in-house team.

Investigations are crucial aspects in cross-border transactions. At Horizons, we have conducted numerous investigations for multinational mergers and acquisitions.

The article analyses the Standards and discusses how the Provisions change the current merger control review process.