Deals of the Year 2012: Jinchuan

Further south, the standout M&A deal of the year was Chinese company Jinchuan’s R9.112 billion ($1.02 billion) acquisition of Metorex. It told us a lot about the changing nature of Chinese acquisition in resource-rich Africa.

Jinchuan
Size R9.112 billion acquisition of Metorex
Advisers Goldman Sachs (Jinchuan), Standard Bank (Metorex)
return to the Middle East and Africa Deals of the Year index

Further south, the standout M&A deal of the year was Chinese company Jinchuan’s R9.112 billion ($1.02 billion) acquisition of Metorex. It told us a lot about the changing nature of Chinese acquisition in resource-rich Africa.

Metorex is a Johannesburg-listed metals and mining company whose main attraction is its range of copper and cobalt assets in the Democratic Republic of Congo and Zambia.

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