Opinion: Roadblocks to corporate due diligence
November 15, 2013 | BY
clpstaff &clp articlesCompany records were once easy to access in China, but a series of high-profile scandals in 2012 have caused a clampdown. John Kuzmik and Xu Changrong look at how the SAIC has to strike a balance between privacy and legitimate public access to corporate records
Everyone has heard stories about the difficulties of performing transactional due diligence in the face of unscrupulous individuals and companies in China bent on hiding information relevant to the transaction.