Monday, August 22, 2016

ChemChina-Syngenta deal gets another ok



A national security panel in the United States has cleared ChemChina's $43 billion takeover of Syngenta.

That increases the likelihood that China’s largest foreign purchase will go through.

The two companies reached a deal in February.

Syngenta has not said whether it offered concessions to win approval from the U.S. national security panel.

While China is winning on this deal, last week it lost in a bid to buy a major electricity company in Australia. The country nixed the deal on the basis of national security.