Chinese investors specializing in healthcare are increasingly expanding into the European market with a series of high-profile, strategic investments. This is part of a trend of heightened healthcare deal activity from Chinese investors. Last year, companies based in China announced…
The Middle East is experiencing rising demand for high quality, innovative healthcare solutions. This is particularly true for the region’s largest healthcare market – Saudi Arabia. Saudi entities are increasingly willing to invest in healthcare companies overseas in order to…
Earlier this year, the pharmaceutical arm of Fosun International, a Chinese company with a market cap of over 13 billion USD, announced a1.3 billion USD buyout of India based Gland Pharma. Chinese companies are increasingly making healthcare deals abroad in…
I-Bridge Capital, a health-care focused venture capital firm and incubator based in Shanghai, has announced the establishment of a joint venture with BioLineRx Ltd., a drug company based in Israel. The venture will incubate healthcare startups, in order to develop…
Europe will need between 670 and 780 billion USD worth of investments into its digital infrastructure if it hopes to keep pace with the United States and China. The region needs to develop fibre-optic networks and high-speed 5G wireless applications…
Chinese investors are becoming increasingly interested in Europe, reports show. In the UK alone, Chinese investment into business and infrastructure has increased by nearly 500 percent over the past six years – from 666 million GBP in 2010 to 3.8…
The Middle East is a region known for its high liquidity and its concentration of high-net worth individuals – and not for its tech sector. This is mainly due to the fact that the regional tech sector is underdeveloped. Entrepreneurship…
The GCC, or Gulf Cooperation Council (Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait and Oman) has many advantages as a tech market. Its benefits include its comparatively high proportion of youth, and its strategic location – Dubai, which…
Middle Eastern real estate investors are partnering with US developers to make significant investments into US property. The Kuwait Real Estate Company (Aqarat) has partnered with New York’s Synapse Development Group to invest a total of 25 million USD in…
Outbound capital flows from the Middle East reached 10 billion USD in the first half of 2016, according to CBRE’s Middle East “In and Out” 2016 report. Much of this capital was deployed in US property markets. Middle Eastern sovereign…
The rapid devaluation of the Chinese yuan triggered a massive capital outflow of between 700 billion and 1 trillion USD in 2015. And a great deal of this investment capital is going into overseas real estate. In the first half…
Chinese individuals and institutions have spent over 16.1 billion USD on overseas real estate in the first half of 2016, representing a massive increase over H1 2015, when they invested less than 8 billion USD. Chinese insurance companies were responsible…
According to Deloitte, the long-standing trade and investment partnership between Germany and China has built a solid foundation for Chinese companies to invest in Germany. Germany is China’s largest European trading partner, and Chinese entities have been increasingly involved in…
Chinese investors have been spending billions on foreign technology opportunities. By July 2016, Chinese entities had made investments into Silicon Valley worth over 6 billion USD (excluding real estate investments). More than half of this figure was invested over the…
As China continues to undergo a focused shift from a manufacturing-based economy to one that relies heavily on service sectors and technology, Chinese investors are sourcing innovative technology through investments into tech companies abroad. Media.net, an advertising technology startup based…