Managing New Risks: Time to Revise Arbitration Clauses
This article was first published in Corporate LiveWire on July 26, 2013 For many foreign companies and their Chinese subsidiaries dealing…
Companies Targeted for Illegally Hiring Foreign Interns
In recent weeks, several of our clients in Shanghai were raided by the local Public Security Bureau (“PSB”, China’s police). The PSB…
Toy Industries of Europe: Interview Maarten Roos – IPR Protection
1. What do you see as the biggest issues for toy companies in relation to protecting their IPR in China? At the…
New Trends in Cooperating with Staffing Firms
This article was written for, and first appeared in the January-February 2013 issue of Human Resources Magazine, a Thomson Reuters publication. There will be…
Foreign Exchange Restrictions on Foreign Investment into China Eased
Certain activities will continue to require approval, but application materials and approval processes will be simplified. Foreign exchange restrictions continue to be…
How To Determine Your Optimal Investment Structure
Continued uncertainty in Europe and the US is leading more international companies to expand activities in China, both in terms of sourcing,…
In Defense of Joint Ventures
Since the 1980s the joint venture was the most common route for structuring foreign direct investment into China. Two decades later, are…
How to do Safe Business in China: Due Diligence of Chinese Partners
Chinese trading companies and factories are adept at raising smokescreens to hide their true circumstances, for example by use of Western perceptions…
Risks and Liabilities for Representatives in China
The legal representative occupies a powerful and important position in the company. Due to the broad scope of authority and access to…
How to fire your General Manager (or Chief Representative) in China
Firing a General Manager in China is not easy. Chinese employment law is generally regarded pro-employee and so firing any employee is…
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