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MaxLinear's scrapped Silicon Motion deal casts rare light on China's revised merger regime

By MLex Staff ( July 27, 2023, 08:25 GMT | Insight) -- China's conditional approval of US chipmaker MaxLinear's plan to buy Taiwanese peer Silicon Motion provides valuable insight for global dealmakers seeking to navigate the Chinese merger-control regime, even though the companies scrapped the plan only hours after Beijing granted a greenlight to the $3.8 billion deal. The conditional clearance issued by the State Administration for Market Regulation not only sheds light on a novel stop-the-clock system, but also underlines Beijing's possible grip on cybersecurity risks amid continuing rivalry with Washington.China's conditional approval of US chipmaker MaxLinear's plan to buy Taiwanese peer Silicon Motion provides valuable insight for global dealmakers seeking to navigate the Chinese merger-control regime, even though the companies scrapped the plan only hours after Beijing granted a greenlight to the $3.8 billion deal....

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