09.05.2014 - Mining M&A may double with China buying again
China, the world’s biggest buyer of metals, is back on the hunt for acquisitions, triggered by a decline in prices and a shift in government policy. Chinese demand for assets may help fuel a doubling in the number of mining deals worldwide this year, according to Jay Leary, law firm Herbert Smith Freehills’s joint global relationship partner for BHP Billiton Ltd., the world’s biggest miner. Copper, iron ore and coal are the top targets, he said. “Over the past six weeks we have seen a significant step- change in the amount of M&A activity in the mining sector,” Leary said in an e-mail. “Over the next year, we would expect Chinese investors to represent a material proportion of mining global transactions, perhaps as much as 30 percent of transactions.”..............................................Full Article: Source
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