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MOFCOM orders extraterritorial divestiture of key mining asset in GlencoreXstrata merger: lessons for future notifications

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • May 6 2013

Following a lengthy review lasting the best part of a year, on 16 April 2013 the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China (MOFCOM) gave

Shanghai launches new RQFLP programme

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • January 14 2013

Shanghai quietly launched a new pilot programme, RMB Qualified Foreign Limited Partner (RQFLP), towards the end of 2012 to permit qualified foreign

SAFE issues circulars to regulate Forex controls over foreign invested partnerships and direct investments

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • December 19 2012

On 19 November 2012, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange (SAFE) issued two new circulars: (i) Circular on Relevant Issues Regarding Administration of Foreign Exchange for Foreign Invested Partnership (Circular 58); and (ii) Circular on Further Adjustments to Measures for the Administration of Foreign Exchange for Direct Investment (Circular 59

President Obama orders divestiture of Chinese investment in US wind farms; investor mounts unprecedented legal challenge

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China, USA
  • -
  • October 5 2012

During the past 25 years, the US government, through the interagency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, has reviewed hundreds of potential foreign acquisitions of US businesses

CIRC relaxes restrictions on permitted investments by insurance companies

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • August 20 2012

The China Insurance Regulatory Commission (CIRC) issued the Circular on Issues relating to Investment of Insurance Funds in Equity and Real Estate (the 2012 Circular) on 16 July 2012 and has issued two other rules, all of which facilitate a more diversified range of investment options for insurance companies

China merger control progress and prognostications

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • May 30 2012

According to the Chinese zodiac, 2011 was the year of the rabbitsymbolizing the ascendancy of principles such as caution and diplomacy

NDRC clarifies foreign investor status of foreign invested RMB funds

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • May 16 2012

China's National Development and Reform Commission (the "NDRC") has issued a Letter on Relevant Issues Relating to Foreign-Invested Equity Investment Enterprises (the "Letter") in response to the Shanghai Development and Reform Commission's request to clarify the 'national status' of an RMB fund in the form of a limited partnership managed by a qualified foreign invested management company as the general partner (whether or not any of the capital committedcontributed to the fund is from that general partner or another non-PRC investor, a "QFLP Fund"

Foreigners expressly restricted from investing in non-residential properties in Guangzhou

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • March 15 2012

Guangzhou Municipal Land Resources and Housing Administrative Bureau recently issued to its sub-branches an internal circular under which foreign individuals and individuals from Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are prohibited from purchasing any non-residential properties in Guangzhou

Penalties now likely if M&A deals are closed without China anti-monopoly approval

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • January 11 2012

Three and a half years after commencement of the Anti-Monopoly Law in China, the Anti-Monopoly Bureau of China's Ministry of Commerce has signalled its intention to finally begin penalising business operators who fail to notify their M&A deals to Mofcom in circumstances where such notification (and then pre-approval by Mofcom) is mandatory

China amends the catalogue of industries for guiding foreign investment

  • Mayer Brown LLP
  • -
  • China
  • -
  • January 10 2012

On 29 December 2011, the PRC National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the PRC Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) published the final version of the Catalogue of Industries for Guiding Foreign Investment (the 2011 Catalogue), which will become effective on 30 January 2012 and repeal and supersede its 2007 version

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