Akin Gump Corporate Partner, Meng Ru attended the 2018 Harvard China Law Symposium and participated on the panel, From China to the World: Cross-border Transactions. The overall theme of the conference was Entrepreneurship and Development of China and some of the key takeaways included how the surge of deals involving China continues to push for strong growth in the cross-border deal market and how the increasing presence of Chinese corporations and investments in the market and the development of Chinese economic and financial institutions are signaling a growing number of new opportunities. At the same time, the structural transformation of the Chinese economy, government regulations imposed on capital, and uncertainties brought by the internationalization of the RMB may create friction in the global cross-border M&A pipeline. The panel explored the question of how China’s role will develop going forward in cross-border transactions and covered the following topics:

• Unique challenges to Chinese investors with respect to their international investments
• CFIUS review and other regulatory issues on both sides of the Pacific
• How to prepare the board of directors of a Chinese investor
• Trends of Chinese outbound investments in the U.S.