Sentences with phrase «foreign acquisitions»

That's a target that would've increased foreign acquisitions by around $ 55 million from 2001.

Chinese companies, for their part, are making big - ticket foreign acquisitions, buying up natural resources and letting foreign profits accumulate overseas.

Forty percent of the property agents the Realtors surveyed said they expect foreign acquisitions to rise this year.

There's a similar degree of rigour in Canada, where the Investment Canada Act requires government approval for foreign acquisitions of Canadian energy sector companies.

Legislators from both US political parties introduced a bill in the Senate in November that would reform the CFIUS review process for foreign acquisitions of American companies and assets.

May has been adamant that the government should play a more active role in vetting proposed foreign acquisitions of UK companies.

Not only can China secure more natural resources through foreign acquisitions, but it can also diversify its investment risks and access new markets.

Republicans in Congress have asked the Government Accountability Office to determine whether CFIUS reviews «have effectively kept pace with the growing scope of foreign acquisitions in strategically important sectors in the US,» while specifically singling out Chinese and Russian state - owned enterprise investments as causes of concern, says Foley & Lardner.

«Some people have gone further and suggested that we need a new form of public interest test to guard British companies against foreign acquisition.

The deal was part of a broader trend of Chinese resource companies making foreign acquisitions as part of a global strategy to gain better access to the key commodities needed to fuel China's economy, the world's second biggest.

Genworth, an insurance company with thousands of employees in Virginia, and China Oceanwide Holdings Group Co. Ltd. said they have refiled their joint voluntary notice with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, a multiagency panel that reviews foreign acquisitions of U.S. companies.

Sandy Walker, a lawyer with Fraser Milner Casgrain bearing extensive experience with foreign acquisitions, says she recently met a Chinese regulatory lawyer who resented what she regarded as Canada's aversion to Chinese investment.

The committee's increased scrutiny of foreign acquisitions led to delays in closing HNA's deal to purchase Scaramucci's ownership in SkyBridge last year.

His move to one of Europe's most influential financial posts is likely to lead to more liberal policies toward foreign acquisitions.

Given the existing land degradation and pollution that are making it harder for China to produce more — and safer — food, it is not difficult to see why foreign acquisition of both land and food producers is becoming increasingly attractive.

As Slaw readers are no doubt aware foreign acquisition of Canadian publishing companies is not allowed under the Canada Investment Act (this is why we were able to snatch Irwin Law from clutches of LexisNexis).

Given that there have been other high profile foreign acquisitions shut down under the Trump administration, one shouldn't consider this purchase safe — especially since it involves networking equipment.

The Austrian audio equipment company is a subsidiary of Harman International Industries which Samsung acquired earlier this year, making it its most valuable foreign acquisition to date, with the tech giant promptly commissioning AKG to tune the audio experience on a variety of its premium offerings like the Galaxy Tab S3, Galaxy S8, Galaxy S8 Plus, and the recently released Galaxy Note 8.

In a recent interview, Harper laid out new policy considerations that form part of the «net benefit test» for proposed foreign acquisitions.

Despite a continued gradual decline in the number of foreign acquisitions by UK based businesses witnessed since the second half of 2006, deal values in Q1 2008 (# 15.5 bn) were in line with 2007 quarterly averages and represented the third highest quarterly foreign investment level since 2002.

Foreign acquisitions of large US entities are likely to be under more scrutiny than domestic companies looking abroad as the Trump administration continues to implement its «America first» agenda.

After all, Chinese companies have had a relatively poor track record integrating their foreign acquisitions.

Canada has long had success building prototypes and early - stage businesses, only to lose them to foreign acquisition or investment.

The Canadian industry was salivating for it, of course, panting to use it for more mergers, foreign acquisitions and payouts to shareholders.

Business failure, office closures and foreign acquisitions are the new order of the day.

When a Canadian business expands its markets or finds complementary strengths through a foreign acquisition, good things happen.

Early to mid-May: U.S. Senate Banking Committee and House of Representatives Financial Services Committee are expected to finalize their versions of legislation to strengthen national security reviews of foreign acquisitions and tie - ups with U.S. companies and make it harder for Chinese firms to acquire sensitive technologies.

The Kidman deal would require the blessing of the Foreign Investment Review Board and foreign acquisitions of agricultural land have proven a sensitive issue for the Liberal - National Coalition.

The CWU - previously led by Alan Johnson, so hardly a hotbed of Hard Leftism - should stop wasting its money on New Labour and start funding individual candidates, regardless of party (if any), who do in fact support public services, strong unions, rural communities, national sovereignty (both as against the EU and as against the foreign acquisition of a key national asset), and the monarchy's direct link to every address in the count.

Chinese companies are also heavily involved in foreign acquisitions, such as the $ 232m purchase of three Californian solar plants by Shenzhen Energy, announced in October.

Mr. Xing was responsible for formulating the rules and policies concerning foreign investment and approval of establishment of the foreign investment companies, and he participated into the drafting and formulating of the Foreign Investment Law, the Catalogue for the Guidance of Foreign Investment Industries and the foreign acquisitions regulations.

Chinese officials, worried about money moving out of the country, have grown skeptical of some foreign acquisitions, even as they welcome others.