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Florian T. Hirsch\u00admann<\/strong> \u2014 Lawyer and Part\u00adner at Reed Smith LLP, Munich<\/p>\n

Tobias Schulz<\/strong> \u2014 Asso\u00adciate and Attor\u00adney at Law at Reed Smith LLP, Munich<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chinese inves\u00adtors regu\u00adlarly high\u00adlight the employees of a company to be acqui\u00adred as key assets in the run-up to a tran\u00adsac\u00adtion. In addi\u00adtion to gene\u00adral conside\u00adra\u00adti\u00adons such as know\u00adledge of exis\u00adting busi\u00adness rela\u00adti\u00adonships of the target company, inter\u00adnal busi\u00adness proces\u00adses and company-speci\u00adfic know-how, the expe\u00adri\u00adence and fami\u00adlia\u00adrity of the senior staff with the busi\u00adness prac\u00adti\u00adces of the local market are of primary importance to inves\u00adtors, not least due to signi\u00adfi\u00adcant diffe\u00adren\u00adces in corpo\u00adrate culture between Chinese and German companies. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Despite this realiza\u00adtion, the methods of retai\u00adning senior employees in the medium to long term are often not compa\u00adti\u00adble with German market prac\u00adtice and the expec\u00adta\u00adti\u00adons of aspi\u00adring medium-sized compa\u00adnies. Although the profes\u00adsio\u00adna\u00adlism of Chinese inves\u00adtors is steadily incre\u00adasing and they are incre\u00adasingly better prepared for the chal\u00adlenges of post-merger inte\u00adgra\u00adtion, there is still often untap\u00adped poten\u00adtial for impro\u00adve\u00adment in employee share owner\u00adship adapted to the German market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":40867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"wp_typography_post_enhancements_disabled":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[2452],"product_tag":[1576,1581,1584,1591,1596,1600],"class_list":{"0":"post-43781","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-ebook-en","7":"product_tag-florian-t-hirschmann-en","8":"product_tag-tobias-schulz-en","9":"product_tag-funding","10":"product_tag-investor-en","11":"product_tag-debt-financing","12":"product_tag-reed-smith-llp-en","13":"pa_ausgabe-deutsch-en","14":"pa_ausgabe-englisch-en","16":"first","17":"outofstock","18":"taxable","19":"shipping-taxable","20":"purchasable","21":"product-type-variable"},"yoast_head":"\nEmployees as key assets in transactions involving Chinese investors - FYB Financial Yearbook<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fyb.de\/en\/produkt\/employees-as-key-assets-in-transactions-under-involvement-of-chinese-investors\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Employees as key assets in transactions involving Chinese investors - FYB Financial Yearbook\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Chinese investors regularly highlight the employees of a company to be acquired as key assets in the run-up to a transaction. 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