On 1 June 2016, the State Council published its Opinions on Establishing a Fair Competition Review System in the Development of the Market Regime, demonstrating that China has formally established a fair competition review system. The opinions, promoting reforms from the top level, is a key step in establishing...

State-owned properties, broadly speaking, are various forms of property that arise as a result of state-made investments. Corporate mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are generally divided into asset and equity M&A. As asset acquisitions involve such issues as title to the assets, and taxes and levies, in practice corporate M&A,...