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The notion of justice

Comparative analysis of labour dispatching and outsourcing

By Wu Kun and Jin Jing, Tian Tai Law Firm

Pharmaceutical quality responsibilities under the MAH system

By Zhong Yueping, Merits & Tree Law Offices

Remedies for minority shareholders in liquidations

By Xu Bangwei and Lin Xiaolu, Jingtian & Gongcheng

Compliance with customs taxation on royalties essential

By Carl Li, AllBright Law Offices

New rules for adjudication of trade secret cases

By Wang Yaxi and Wu Yue, Yuanhe Partners

Strategy for settlement negotiation in IP infringement cases

By Frank Liu and Adam Zhu, Tiantai Law Firm

Focus on arbitral mutual assistance arrangement for mainland, HK courts

By Zhang Dan and Zhu Hongyu, AnJie Law Firm

The Civil Code and title of property: A banker’s perspective

By Yang Guang and Xu Xiaoxuan, Lantai Partners

Document No.29 and the validity of cross-border guarantees

By Zhang Guanglei and Cui Jiaqi, Jingtian & Gongcheng

Defect warranty obligations in financial leasing ABS

By Sun Shiqi and Chen Shu, Jingtian & Gongcheng

Risk in copying template of interbank fiduciary agreements

By Hua Tao and Deng Wei, Dentons

Exploring legal systems facing foreign investors in China

By Ni Xudong, East & Concord Partners

Dividends, risks and compliance with customs reforms

By Jia Xiaoning and Ning Jing, AllBright Law Offices

Ensuring arbitration clause validity in signed company contracts

The following arbitration case illustrates this problem, and this article aims to provide its solution

Video evidence

What are the rules governing the giving of evidence by video link in civil proceedings

Are you being watched?

Governments adopting trace-and-track apps to prevent the spread of this coronavirus have raised questions about the ‘right balance’ between crisis response and privacy considerations

Beyond the ‘mega’ era

What does the future hold for China’s asset management industry?

A wealth of advice

Acclaimed financial lawyer David Liu shares his career stories

What the Star Market has changed

By The Securities team of Shu Jin Law Firm
It provides a brief introduction to a few significantly influential innovative arrangements made by the Star Market

Ten questions about ‘dismantling the red chips structure’

By Xu Jingke and Fan Jianhong, Dentons
Should a company dismantle the structure or not? If so, how? What are the important issues to consider during the process?

Paths of domestic enterprises listing in Hong Kong

By Wang Bo and Chen Rui, Commerce & Finance Law Offices
Since the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX), the preferred place for overseas listing of PRC domestic enterprises, revised the listing rules for the Main Board in 2018 and added three chapters such as Chapter 18A, more than 200 domestic enterprises have completed a Main Board listing on the HKEX

Surfing boards

What is the best listing venue for homecoming Chinese stocks?

Cayman privatizations back in vogue

By David Lamb, Conyers Dill & Pearman
Privatizations of public companies incorporated in the Cayman Islands and listed on a major stock exchange are in vogue again for a variety of reasons, financial and regulatory

Mediation for cross-border investment disputes in covid-19

By Jefferey Quan and Chen Congfa, ETR Law Firm

The stock appreciation rights incentive for listed national companies

By Wang Feng and Ying Zhi, Grandway Law Offices

Legal risk management of green bonds

By Yin Yanhong, DOCVIT Law Firm

Allocation of owner liability in smuggling cases

By Jenny Zhan, Dentons

Ascertainment of foreign law in Chinese judicial practice

By Zhang Guanglei and Cai Xiaoxia, Jingtian & Gongcheng

Application of ‘execution to bankruptcy’ rule

By Xia Yibin and Cai Jingjing, AnJie Law Firm

Are you ready for a secondary listing in Hong Kong?

By Zhang Jian and Zhu Zan, Shihui Partners
Due to the uncertainties brought by Sino-US trade frictions and the negative impacts caused by recent scandals of some Chinese companies, a secondary listing in Hong Kong becomes quite attractive to the China- based and US-listed issuers

Standardized development trends of capital trust business

By Ren Guobing and Lin Shulan, Jingtian Gongcheng

Assessing validity of new credit-enhancing documents

By Yang Guang and Li Yunshi, Lantai Partners

Key points of CFIUS pre-assessment for US investment

By David Pan and Kenneth Kong, Llinks Law Offices

Litigation and other options in IP dispute resolution

By Frank Liu, Tiantai Law Firm

Rules for advertising language and responses to penalties

By Zhou Le and Zhou Yeli, Tiantai Law Firm

Factors to consider in short video rights protection

By Zhang Chenyang and Yan Hang, Yuanhe Partners

Establishing CTCs in a changing Hong Kong environment

By Wang Jihong and Xu Yibai, Zhonglun Law Firm

VAM clauses beyond the SPC minutes

By Ji Chaoyi and Yang Yingzhi, East & Concord Partners
stimulus

Can India’s post-covid-19 stimulus benefit Chinese companies?

By Santosh Pai and Vijay Sureka, Link Legal India Law Services
Adjusting business plans can ensure entrepreneurs navigate risks and profit from a new relief programme

Chinese take-privates: End of a US affair?

By Matt Roberts, Maples Group
In certain instances, the founders and management of public companies may consider a privatization or “take-private” deal, whereby the company is taken private by becoming a private Cayman Islands company and, as a result, delists from these US securities exchanges.

Risk control of email, internet scams in cross-border trade

By Ekin Zeng and Caroline Cheng, AllBright Law Offices

Pandemics

The contractual impact of pandemics on corporate and financial transactions

Managing a crisis

By Kai Bandilla, David Loszynski and Gao Sen, Heuking Kühn Lüer Wojtek
Slowly recovering from lockdown measures, most German companies are more or less affected by the government’s strategy of preventing an uncontrolled spread of the virus, and subsequently an overload of the German health system

The homecoming

A wave of Chinese stocks is poised to exit the US and seek capital back in Shanghai or Hong Kong, following recent fraud allegations of Nasdaq-listed Luckin Coffee and intensifying political tensions

Over the peak?

Businesses restarting after the worst of the pandemic face supply-related legal headaches. How should in-house counsel manage these and other risks?

Adopting cloud, big data and AI in supply chain-based ABS

By Liang Hua and Chen Xiuli, V&T Law Firm
How can lawyers provide a better supply chain-based ABS service by adopting cutting-edge technologies?

Factual witnesses in commercial arbitration

In commercial arbitration, the claimant and the respondent shall each provide evidence for the facts on which they apply, reply or counterclaim. Witness testimony often plays an indispensable role in providing facts and restoring the truth of a case

Focus on BAC rules appeal mechanism

A highlight of the BAC investment arbitration rules is that they provide an appeal mechanism under article 46 and appendix E, allowing the parties to appeal by consent

Complex asset disposal in mass economic crime cases

By Wang Dan, Long An Law Firm
Mass economic crime, with illegal fundraising as a typical form, affects a large group of non-specific victims and features broad involvement, substantial destruction and difficult disposal of assets

Zhejiang bankruptcy procedure involving criminal and civil liabilities

By Nafisa Nihmat and Rita Yan, Zhong Lun Law Firm
In recent years, the number of bankruptcy cases has increased significantly, and the issue of the cases involving both criminal and civil liabilities has become more prominent
investments

Screening Chinese investments: What happens next?

By Santosh Pai and Anuj Trivedi, Link Legal India Law Services
Entities affected by India’s new policy may be able to take measures to obtain fast-tracked approvals

Probe in debt for equity swaps during reorganizations

By Yang Guang and Wang Yao, Lantai Partners

Factors in the acquisition of NPLs in China

By Xu Bangwei and Bai Lijie, Jingtian & Gongcheng

Registration of ODI assets and equity

By Selena She and Kenneth Kong, Llinks Law Offices

Practical issues regarding punitive damages

By Chen Zhixing and Lan Manfeng, AnJie Law Firm

Protecting shareholder priority when transferring state-owned equity

By Lu Xiang and Ciera Rui, AllBright Law Offices

New challenges of medical sourcing in China

What are the risks for global buyers sourcing medical equipment in China?

The legal effect of liquidation preferences

By Li Xianxi and Xiao Zhijun, East & Concord Partners

Management of legal compliance during a pandemic

By Zhang Ting, DOCVIT Law Firm

Applying Securities Law to interbank bonds

By Li Jumei, Grandway Law Offices

Recognizing, enforcing HK judgments in mainland China

By Zhang Guanglei and Chen Cheng, Jingtian & Gongcheng

When probationary period encounters pandemic

By Shen Minquan, Jingtian & Gongcheng

The point of return

If legal tools of bankruptcy are properly applied, there are chances for companies to survive and start again

Innovative drug R&D investment and financing (part 1)

By Jin Youyuan and Guo Xiaoxing, Merits & Tree Law Offices

Trademark Office response measures during the pandemic

By Claire Zhao, Sanyou Intellectual Property Agency

Liability risks for legal representatives of enterprises

By Wei Jie and Zhang Yubo, Tiantai Law Firm

Gaining the advantage against trademark squatters

By Frank Liu and Sandy Shan, Tiantai Law Firm

New trend in system of ‘dismiss first, sue separately’?

By Xiang Li and Lian Chenghe, Yuanhe Partners

Priority, restricted sectors of foreign investment in Kazakhstan

By Wang Jihong and Liu Ying, Zhong Lun Law Firm

EAP proves a handy tool in uncertain times

The emergency arbitrator procedure (EAP) is a mechanism in the field of international commercial arbitration available to parties seeking interim relief

Adjusting to internet arbitration cases

The oral hearings of arbitration cases in mainland China were cancelled after the spring festival due to social distancing measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Since then, arbitration institutions have been seeking an alternative to hear cases while complying with the epidemic prevention policy.

Stolen goods

This article examines and compares the treatment of stolen goods in common law jurisdictions and in mainland China

Restructuring strategies

By Mark Fairbairn and Carolyn Dong, DLA Piper
This article examines options to improve liquidity and effect restructurings at a time when COVID-19 is causing economic pain on an unprecedented scale
law firms

Firm response

Law firms and companies take the lead in fulfilling social responsibilities during China’s COVID-19 crisis

Hand in hand

Preventing data compliance risks involving third parties

By David Pan, Llinks Law Offices
Recent incidents are warning companies that they should conduct adequate due diligence, management and risk prevention of third-party data service providers

Payment arrangements in cross-border acquisitions

By Cathy Huang, Kenneth Kong, Llinks Law Offices 

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Cross-border debt recovery: Lessons from a guarantee dispute

By Armstrong Chen and Wang Xin, Dacheng Law Offices
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Countering RE dilemma of ‘nominated subcontractors’

By Tony Wang and Hussein Hu, Wintell

This article systematically analyses prevailing judicial trends and compliance essentials, offering practical strategies for risk isolation and contract management

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