Resources, energy top Q1 M&A deals overseas: PE fund
By Emily Ford |
June 8, 2012, Friday
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The amount of outbound investment leaving China rose to US$21.4 billion in the first three months of this year, dominated by deals in resources and energy, according to A Capital, a private equity fund.
After a sluggish 2011 when investors held back due to uncertainty over the global macro-economic environment, merger and acquisition deals accelerated in the first quarter, the fund's Dragon Index showed yesterday. Investments were overwhelmingly dominated by resources and energy, which took up 92 percent of all M&A deals in the first quarter.
A Capital expects Chinese outbound investments to increase by US$800 billion by 2016.
A Capital highlighted that one new trend of investors taking minority stakes made up 78 percent of all deal value. "Going for a minority stake is increasingly recognized a way to tap into high quality assets that would otherwise not be for sale or out of reach for Chinese investors," it said in a statement.
Meanwhile a report yesterday by New York-based Rhodium Group and CICC, one of China's biggest investment banks, showed that Chinese direct investment into Europe trebled last year to US$10 billion.
After a sluggish 2011 when investors held back due to uncertainty over the global macro-economic environment, merger and acquisition deals accelerated in the first quarter, the fund's Dragon Index showed yesterday. Investments were overwhelmingly dominated by resources and energy, which took up 92 percent of all M&A deals in the first quarter.
A Capital expects Chinese outbound investments to increase by US$800 billion by 2016.
A Capital highlighted that one new trend of investors taking minority stakes made up 78 percent of all deal value. "Going for a minority stake is increasingly recognized a way to tap into high quality assets that would otherwise not be for sale or out of reach for Chinese investors," it said in a statement.
Meanwhile a report yesterday by New York-based Rhodium Group and CICC, one of China's biggest investment banks, showed that Chinese direct investment into Europe trebled last year to US$10 billion.
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