Cross-border legal intelligence · China & the world
Pricing clauses in distribution agreements are among the most frequently overlooked exposures under the Anti-Monopoly Law.
Urgent-looking emails claiming your domain or mark is about to be lost are almost always solicitation scams.
The 2+1 rule, mandatory pre-signing disclosures and trademark localisation decide who succeeds.
Part two of a four-part series. When does a company genuinely need outside counsel, and when is Big Law the right answer rather than the automatic one? On why you do not hire a law firm but lawyers, responsiveness as a component of legal competence, and why cross-border work demands global experience and local expertise in the same adviser.
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Part one of a four-part series. After four decades of practice, much of it spent inside multinational companies rather than advising them, a lesson that reshaped an approach to lawyering: a technically correct legal answer is not necessarily a useful business answer. On the 25-page memorandum problem, and why the most valuable advice moves from "no" to "how".
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Reflections from an energy and petrochemical M&A transaction: why the value of due diligence lies not in the number of risks identified, but in how effectively those risks are translated into transaction advantages for the buyer.
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As foreign-invested enterprises (FIEs) , including wholly foreignowned enterprises (WFOEs) and Sino -foreign joint ventures (JVs) , remain integral to China’s economic landscape, they face potential legal risks tied to operational violations that could trigger criminal investigations.
Read the article →Market entry, negative-list analysis and structuring inbound investment.
Deal structuring, foreign-investment screening and post-merger integration.
International arbitration, enforcement and cross-border litigation strategy.
Trademark registration, trade-secret protection and anti-counterfeiting.
Franchising, distribution, licensing and operating compliance.
Anti-Monopoly Law compliance, pricing practices and regulator engagement.
Hiring, termination, handbooks and workforce disputes under PRC law.
Governance, exit mechanics and protecting contributed technology.
Financing, securities regulation and cross-border capital formation.
Urban renewal, land-use rights and project execution in China.
Trade policy, sanctions exposure and supply-chain compliance.
Conversations with lawyers, investors and business leaders shaping China-related work.
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