This week’s record-breaking $43bn bid from ChemChina for Syngenta has western bankers bracing, and hoping, for a huge surge of Chinese overseas deals.
While Chinese companies have long been interested in snapping up foreign assets, mergers and acquisitions advisers compare the latest spate of deals with the Japanese dealmaking boom of the 1980s — when a wave of Japanese companies snapped up assets including New York’s Rockefeller Center and movie studio Columbia Pictures.
Already this year, four of the five biggest cross-border deals have involved Chinese groups bidding for US and European assets worth $61.7bn in total.
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