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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.
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Short summary for readers: In Article 1, we explained why many Western companies misjudge today's Chi-na—the mid-tech bottleneck, the new risk environment, and the trap of binary thinking.
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As part of a series of articles co-authored by IPO Pang Shenjun PLLC and Culbert Ellis, both members of the International Commercial Law Alliance (“ICLA”), the authors exam-ine key distinctions between English and Chinese contract law, particularly in relation to the selection of governing law and j
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China and Administrative Law Like many countries, China has numerous state agencies that make decisions that affect Chinese companies, consumers, and citizens on a daily basis. These agencies decide on various matters such as the compensation to be given to a…
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China's Labor Contract Law gives a wrongfully terminated employee the right to demand their job back. In practice, reinstatement is often the remedy nobody wants.
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Employee terminations in China can be quite unlike terminating an employee in other countries. Whether the termination is for cause because the employee was embezzling from the company or for legitimate performance reasons, terminating an employee in China…
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What does a deck of playing cards and a lighter have in common? ‘Nothing’, one could argue. On December 30th 2015, the Beijing No.1 Intermediate People’s Court argued otherwise and endorsed a creative argument in a case involving the world’s largest playing…
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