Opinion: Roadblocks to corporate due diligence

Company 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

5 minute readNovember 15, 2013 at 05:28 AM
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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.

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