In January 2014, lenovo announced the acquisition of IBM X86 server business, the department of defense is IBM X86 server client, because involve information security was thought to the us government will not approve.

China ministry of commerce has approved the deal in July 2014, the committee on foreign investment in the United States in September for approval, during the modified mainland government procurement product review process, which China ministry of commerce, think the bill against fair trade principles.

In September 2013, applied materials and Tokyo electronics for the first time that a merger of equals, in April 2015 merger of the two companies said they would cancel the original plan, because the plan failed to get the U.S. justice department for approval. Before the European Union has approved the merger, the ministry of commerce of China voted against it.

Enterprise basic have to undergo the eu international mergers and acquisitions, antitrust scrutiny of the government, such as the United States and China to veto any will result in the merger abortion, thus, enterprise merger appear market behavior, the government about this pair of invisible hands is the key to the success of acquisition, and the interests behind race is an outsider no matter how to also can't see clearly.

China resources to acquire fairchild semiconductor, the risk is not high, even if the board of directors of the fairchild agreed that once the us government veto, China resources to pay more than $180 million penalty due to breach of contract, but China resources still going her own way.

Again, ase hostile takeover silicon semiconductor, the main risk is that China's ministry of commerce anti-monopoly review cannot pass, but even so, risk is still difficult to block, the moonlight.

Behind lenovo's purchase of IBM X86 business, lenovo and IBM used to persuade the government is difficult to know how much resources, but definitely not.

Applied materials and Tokyo electronics merger of commerce of China and the U.S. government's commission on overseas investment has done much communication, outsiders cannot know, but there must be.

Enterprise international mergers and acquisitions related to the enterprise strength, of course, but the case also shows that the enterprise of international mergers and acquisitions speak bluntly, is actually the national interest.