Chinese companies' overseas acquisitions into the mainstream of cross-border mergers and acquisitions

      Chinese companies' overseas expansion has been "successful." According to data from the Qingke Research Center of well-known venture capital and private equity research institutions, in the Chinese cross-border M&A market, since the second quarter, Chinese companies’ overseas M&A has surpassed foreign M&A in transaction volume and transaction amount, becoming a cross-border M&A. The mainstream of trading.

　　Cross-border M&A transactions are divided into overseas M&A and foreign M&A transactions. According to data from the Zero2IPO Research Center, in the first 11 months of this year, China’s cross-border M&A market completed 61 M&A transactions, and the total amount of M&A disclosed was US$15.107 billion. In the same period, Chinese companies completed 32 overseas M&A transactions, accounting for 52.5% of cross-border M&A transactions; the disclosed M&A amount reached US$13.322 billion, accounting for 88.2% of total cross-border M&A transactions.

　　Qingke pointed out that the international financial crisis has reversed the position of Chinese and foreign capital in China's cross-border M&A market. In 2009, Chinese companies with large state-owned enterprises focused on accelerating overseas expansion. The traditional industry has become a major area. In the first 11 months of 2009, the traditional industry completed 141 mergers and acquisitions transactions, accounting for 54.0% of the total number of mergers and acquisitions, of which 123 transactions in the total amount of M&A transactions reached 20.916 billion US dollars, accounting for 74.2% of the total amount of mergers and acquisitions.

　　In addition, with the recovery of China's economy, China's M&A market (including domestic M&A market and cross-border M&A market) has become active. Zero2IPO said that after the short-term contraction of the Chinese M&A market in early 2009, the transaction scale expanded rapidly. In the first 11 months of 2009, the Chinese M&A market completed a total of 261 M&A transactions, of which 209 transactions were disclosed in a total of $28.994 billion.