China

Feldman Joining Richardson & Patel!

By David Feldman at 8 September, 2010, 6:51 am

I am very excited to announce that your humble blogger has agreed to join Los Angeles-based Richardson & Patel LLP (www.richardsonpatel.com) as a partner effective October 1, 2010. I will be resident in the firm’s New York City office. I am very excited about this great opportunity and will be bringing six attorneys with me. R&P [...]

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See You at the Rodman Conference

By David Feldman at 2 September, 2010, 8:48 am

Now of course I love all my investment banking friends. A number of firms regularly put on conferences that include great presentations by interesting companies and, usually, some fun entertainment as well. And best of all they’re usually free! Being here in NY, I always enjoy the annual Rodman & Renshaw conference, this year being [...]

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Another Unfortunate Barron’s Article on China

By David Feldman at 29 August, 2010, 9:22 am

Barron’s magazine is once again trashing Chinese reverse mergers. In Thursday’s issue they lay out an extensive investigation of the history, players and performance of Chinese reverse mergers. They acknowledge that about 350 Chinese companies have gone public since 2004, when the pace really started to pick up. They point to a handful of problems [...]

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PCAOB to Auditors of Chinese Companies - Get to China!

By David Feldman at 27 August, 2010, 9:36 am

The Reverse Merger Report has reported that the US Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) has issued a warning to auditors of Chinese companies to be prepared for extra scrutiny from the Board. In particular, they have expressed concern about US -based auditors who rely on field work of China-based accountants and do not even [...]

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Good Second Quarter for Reverse Mergers

By David Feldman at 30 July, 2010, 9:35 am

Now that we have completed the Dodd-Frank Show here at the RM blog, it’s time to return to our title topic (though not much to report on SPACs, in fact there’s been no new SPAC Report from DealFlow since late May)! The good news is, according to The Reverse Merger Report, that reverse merger deal volume [...]

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RM Crowd Heads North - Part II

By David Feldman at 6 July, 2010, 10:37 pm

While a large chunk of the RM Conference in Toronto focused on Canadian stuff, there was a good panel updating everyone on China. There continues to be a “flood” of financings for Chinese companies that look to be or already are trading in the US. Valuations have been compressing and slowing things a bit, with [...]

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Off to Toronto

By David Feldman at 23 June, 2010, 12:56 pm

As I mentioned here last week, I’m heading soon to Toronto to attend DealFlow Media’s annual Reverse Merger Conference which takes place June 29 and 30. The panel I am moderating is late on the 29th and is all about Form 10 shells. The bottom line that I believe our panel will relate: Form 10 [...]

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China De-Brief Part III

By David Feldman at 6 June, 2010, 9:18 am

In the last in this series on my recent China trip, I want to briefly touch on the scope of the opportunity in the world’s most populous country, by reprinting, updating and adding a little commentary to a small portion of the China chapter of the second edition of my book,
Reverse Mergers and Other Alternatives to a Traditional [...]

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