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"MOFCOM Imposes Divestiture Obligation in Its Approval of Private Equity Transaction." Hogan Lovells, 07 November 2011

Adrian Emch, Andrew McGinty, Jun Wei, Henry Wheare

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On 31 October 2011, China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) cleared the acquisition of Savio Macchine Tessili S.p.A. by Alpha Private Equity Fund V subject to certain conditions.  This is the eighth occasion on which MOFCOM has attached conditions to its decision approving a transaction under the Anti-Monopoly Law (AML), but it is the first conditional decision relating to a private equity investor.  The decision also sheds some light on how MOFCOM deals with minority interests under the merger control rules contained in the AML.