What does asset reorganization mean? Describe it in an easy-to-understand way.

Asset restructuring, also known as debt restructuring, refers to the concessions made by creditors to the debtor in line with the principle of friendly consultation and under the supervision of law when the debtor has financial difficulties. Asset reorganization refers to the transaction behavior of adjusting assets, liabilities or owners' equity between enterprises and other entities in order to realize the effective allocation of resources.

Five types of assets reorganization of listed companies;

(1) Acquisition and merger

In China, M&A mainly refers to the acquisition of shares or assets of other enterprises by listed companies, merger of other enterprises, or directional share expansion and merger of other enterprises. The concept of M&A used in this paper is that listed companies, as stakeholders, actively expand abroad.

(II) Equity transfer

Equity transfer is another important way of assets reorganization of listed companies. In China, equity transfer mainly refers to the bulk equity transfer of listed companies, including paid equity transfer, secondary market acquisition, administrative free transfer and controlling shareholder acquisition.

(3) divestiture of assets and sale of its own shares

The divestiture of assets or the sale of its own shares is an important way for listed companies to restructure their assets. It mainly refers to the behavior that listed companies sell part of themselves to target companies and get benefits from them.

(4) Asset replacement

Asset replacement is one of the important ways of asset reorganization of listed companies. In China, asset replacement mainly refers to the behavior that the controlling shareholder of a listed company replaces the dull assets of the listed company with high-quality assets or cash, or replaces the non-main business assets with the main business assets.

(5) Others

In addition to the basic methods such as equity transfer, merger and acquisition, asset replacement and asset divestiture, according to the definition of asset reorganization, the following reorganization methods have appeared in China: repurchase of state-owned shares, debt restructuring, trusteeship, company division, leasing and so on.