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China moves to become top acquirer of foreign companies

“The Chinese aren’t coming, they’re already here.” 

So reports Forbes.com sounding off on China’s ever-growing outbound M&A investment in the west. For those of us operating on the ground in China, Chinese cross-border M&A expansion is not exactly ‘new’ news, but something Horizons has progressed hand-in-hand with for a number of years now.

We’ve been serving both inbound and outbound M&A since 2005 and have witnessed up-close the steady increase in Chinese money heading outbound. As a Group, Horizons has successfully […]

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Piercing the ‘Corporate Veil’ — Mongolia

In its Spring newsletter, CONSULEGIS International Litigation & Arbitration Specialist Group presented an abbreviated overview of 23 jurisdictions’ legal views on the topic of when courts may disregard a corporate entity to make owners of the entity personally liable for the debts of the entity—what is commonly thought of as “piercing the corporate veil”.

Among the contributors to writing on the topic are five legal advisors from Horizons addressing six countries’ legal points of view, including China, Korea (DPRK), Mongolia, […]

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Gaining insight into the China market

Earlier this year Horizons held its first professional seminar in Milan, Italy, welcoming 100-plus attendees looking to get a leg up on doing business in China’s ‘new’ market. The event was designed to provide a dose of ‘in-the-know’ information about doing business in China. The event took place at Milan’s Palazzo del Lavoro and was co-organized by our Torino-based Europe, Russia and Belarus regional office along with EXS Italia, a Milan-based executive search firm. Spearheaded by our regional partner for Europe, […]

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