If operating as a foreign firm in China is getting harder, why are we still there?
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But any foreign firm would surely want control, in order to restructure Proton properly.
Typically, the foreign firm brings technology and its Chinese partner provides access to the Chinese market.
Look for wounded banks with large customer bases that could fit nicely into a foreign firm's portfolio.
In China Goldman is the only foreign firm licensed to underwrite domestic offerings.
Can a foreign firm ever be sure that its Indian partner is clean?
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To qualify for liberation from U.S. paper shufflers a foreign firm must establish that its shares mostly trade overseas.
To most Chinese, English can be a passport to an education abroad or a high-salaried job with a foreign firm in China.
Last month, opposition parliamentarians objected to AngloGold as a meddling foreign firm.
The designation significantly strengthens U.S. sanctions on the oil company, potentially barring any foreign firm doing business with it from the American financial system.
Besides, Cerberus is a foreign firm, it is an election year and, with all their recent economic mishaps, the Japanese are nursing a bruised pride.
The problem with the usual joint venture is that, because the Chinese partner generally has a majority stake, the foreign firm has little say in management.
Similarly, investors have no way of checking whether a foreign firm that is a candidate for investment is conducting business with a regime subject to U.S. sanctions.
It required a bureaucratic struggle lasting several years before he managed to regain control over his file and land a good-paying job with a foreign firm in Beijing.
The combination ticks every box, bringing a presence in key markets for Chinese clients and exposure to a sophisticated foreign firm with skills in areas like investment banking and foreign-currency funding.
The firm roundly denies all these charges as preposterous, and points out that Enron, unlike virtually every other foreign firm, has survived the Indian bureaucratic morass to complete a successful power station.
And by giving them only a month to submit tenders, the government made the necessary due diligence, as well as any bid-qualifying tie-up by a foreign firm with a Ukrainian partner, virtually impossible.
It also requires that a U.S. agency take responsibility for each transaction, and it gives CFIUS a relatively brief review process to determine whether a proposed acquisition by a foreign firm poses a risk to national security.
What makes this situation more complicated is that it creates an environment in which a legitimately-run foreign firm that buys an American company, and thus can raise money by issuing shares, is lumped in with companies that operate nefariously.
Developed with money from Occidental Petroleum in 1985, the coal mine was China's first big venture with a foreign firm and a symbol of the country's willingness to do business with corporate America as it emerged from behind its Maoist curtain.
Developed with money from Occidental Petroleum (nyse: OXY - news - people ) in 1985, the coal mine was China's first big venture with a foreign firm and a symbol of the country's willingness to do business with corporate America as it emerged from behind its Maoist curtain.
Activists, who have turned to securities regulation as a tool for pressuring companies to withdraw from controversial investments, said this marks the first time the SEC has publicly singled out concerns over human rights, national security or religious freedom as a trigger for closer examination of a foreign firm's application to list its stock in U.S. markets.
Last week gunmen struck at a foreign contracting firm working in the country.
The going was tough, but with little foreign competition the firm's efforts paid off.
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Ask any foreign private equity firm, and they will tell you that they would like to find more investments in the country.
The regulators tout them as the largest fines ever levied against a foreign-based audit firm.
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The presence of foreign interests in any firm in those markets gives me some confidence.
Because we have increasing evidence that foreign ownership of a firm may actually also benefit firms, specifically in terms of their innovativeness.
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The Foreign Ministry expressed "firm opposition" to Pyongyang's third test in defiance of UN Security Council resolutions, but did not specify further action.
Investors seem to think a foreign bid for either firm is unlikely, however: hence the lacklustre performance of their shares after the deal was announced.
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