Month: July 2018

China outbound investment: a procedural overview

In 2017, the Chinese government issued several regulative measures to safeguard the rapid growth of China outbound investment. Specifically, the Administrative Measures for Outbound Investment (referred to as Measures), issued by the National Development and Reform Commission, forwards provisions for outbound investment entities, supervision methods and improving outbound investment supervision systems. As a result, China-based…

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Investing in China: the basics of setting up your business and getting it right

Today, China’s increasingly open economic system, combined with an ever-growing middle-class, has paved the road to vast opportunities for foreign investors. Against the backdrop of a reform and economic transformation turned into a sustainable and innovative driven model, China inbound investment has entered a new era. Specifically, in China’s 13th 5-year plan the drive towards…

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Antitrust and Competition Law: Germany and Austria draft guidelines on the amended Competition Law

In the current evolving world, the transaction value of a merger or acquisition is no longer limited to the turnover value of the target company. Instead, as seen in Facebook’s acquisition of WhatsApp for 19 billion USD, high transactional value does not always correlate with turnover, instead, it can relate to a strong market and…

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