Status: Clearance Acquirer: OMERS Infrastructure Management Inc. (Canada) Acquired: FS Saguaro, LLC, certain assets, and the Development Business of First Solar, Inc. (US) Value: US$261 million Industry: Energy… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Clairvest Group Inc. (Canada) Acquired: O&M business of First Solar, Inc. (US) Value: US$213 million Industry: Energy… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: SK hynix Inc. (South Korea) Acquired: NAND business of Intel Corporation (US) Value: US$9 billion Industry: Semiconductors… Continue Reading
On 20 April 2021, the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), the German Bundeskartellamt (BKartA) and the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) issued a joint statement¹ and held a joint online event pushing for more rigorous merger control enforcement. Our global competition team in these jurisdictions unpacks the joint statement and provides the following … Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: TELUS International (Cda) Inc. (Canada) Acquired: Lionbridge AI business of Lionbridge Technologies, Inc. (U.S.) Value: US$939 million Industry: Artificial Intelligence; Information Services… Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (Canada) Acquired: Kansas City Southern (US) Value: US$29 billion Industries: Transportation; Infrastructure; Railway Update: On August 16, 2022, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (TSX: CP; NYSE: CP) announced that “it has received the required regulatory clearance from the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”) for the … Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: CAE Inc. (Canada) Acquired: Military Training business of L3Harris Technologies, Inc. (US) Value: $1.05 billion Industry: Defense services… Continue Reading
International M&A practitioners are used to dealing with CFIUS for any transaction involving assets in the US. The Europeans M&A practitioners are, however, catching up, and many multijurisdictional deals will now face clearance in a number of countries. The latest addition to the list, the UK National Security and Investment Bill, is broad in scope … Continue Reading
The People’s Republic of China (PRC or China) established a foreign investment security review in 2011 that focused exclusively on the merger and acquisition of domestic companies by foreign investors in a notice issued by the State Council (the 2011 Notice)1. On December 19, 2020, the National Development and Reform Committee (NDRC) and the Ministry … Continue Reading
Status: Undetermined Acquirer: Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (Canada) Acquired: American Equity Investment Life Holding Company (US) Value: US$675 million Industry Tags: Financial Services; Insurance… Continue Reading
On November 11, 2020, the UK government announced a new NSI regime. Under the new regime, certain direct foreign investments in the UK will require mandatory notification to, and prior approval by, the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) before completion.… Continue Reading
On November 12, 2020, the President signed an Executive Order (EO) on “Addressing the Threat from Securities Investments that Finance Communist Chinese Military Companies.” The EO generally prohibits any transaction in publicly traded securities, or any securities that are derivative of, or are designed to provide investment exposure to such securities, of any Chinese military … Continue Reading
Status: Clearance Acquirer: GIC Pte. Ltd. (Singapore); The Carlyle Group Inc. (U.S.) Acquired: Partial ownership of American Express Global Business Travel (U.S.) Value: US$1 billion Industry: Logistics; Travel & Event Management… Continue Reading
