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Oceanwide sticks to US deal despite skepticism
    2018-01-05  08:53    Shenzhen Daily

GENWORTH Financial Inc. said Wednesday it was pressing forward on its deal to be acquired by China’s Oceanwide Holdings Co., which has stalled over concerns about Chinese access to sensitive U.S. personal data and faced renewed doubts after the collapse of Ant Financial’s proposed purchase of MoneyGram.

Genworth said it and Oceanwide are working to amend the proposed deal in hopes of winning approval from a U.S. national security panel.

On Tuesday, China’s Ant Financial said it scrapped plans to buy MoneyGram International Inc. because the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) rejected it.

CFIUS, which assesses deals to ensure they do not harm national security, had expressed concerns of the MoneyGram deal over the safety of data that can be used to identify U.S. citizens.

The two deals are among many facing CFIUS’s changing standards for deal approval as the United States has become increasingly skeptical of Chinese investment.

While CFIUS has not killed all deals involving Chinese buyers — at least a handful were approved in 2017 — the panel has been increasingly skeptical of Chinese transactions, according to legal experts.

“We are identifying transactions that, two years ago, we would have expected to be cleared and that, today, we do not expect to be cleared,” said Harry Clark, a CFIUS expert with the law firm Orrick, Herrington and Sutcliffe LLP.

“Two years ago, it was rare for the government categorically to block deals, formally or informally. It is still not normal but it is also no longer rare,” he said.

Genworth, which in late November extended its deadline to complete the Oceanwide deal to April 1, said it had been working to allay CFIUS’s concerns with fixes to the deal that would be “more robust than previous CFIUS filings,” Genworth spokeswoman Julie Westermann said. (SD-Agencies)

 

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