Trends in Chinese investment in the international M&A market

Published in Financier Worlwide – October 2016

On 27 May 2016, one of the world’s leading construction equipment manufacturers, Zoomlion Group, announced that the company had decided to terminate negotiations of its proposed acquisition of Terex. The value of the discontinued transaction is said to be at least $3.4bn. The news resulted in much speculation on the market, especially in the Western world.

“The only reason we terminated the negotiation with Terex was the price,” said Zoomlion Group president Changjun Sun. However, regardless of Mr Sun’s statements, many western reporters and analysts believe this is a sign that Chinese capital is receding on the international M&A market. Of the $100bn mainland China companies spent on overseas investments in 2015, approximately $55bn went on M&A transactions.

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Written by our international partners at Yingke: Linda Yang and Yongyuan Li