Amanda Lau, senior lead counsel for Citi’s investment banking business in Asia discusses managing shifting global geopolitical dynamics, navigating A-to-H listing complexities, and the strategic balance of Hong Kong’s listing reforms.
Can Chinese biotech deals continue amid increasingly stringent U.S. and Chinese restrictions?
China has issued two new tax rules affecting non-resident individuals who arrange their affairs through offshore trusts. Daisy Duan, Xiaohong Chen and Chixiang Gao of King & Wood focus on the scope and impact of these important rules
The handling of personal information poses a challenging area of compliance for businesses in China. New measures seek to provide a simplified framework for those handling a relatively small quantity of information. Wenpei Yu of Jincheng Tongda & Neal provides an analysis of the impact and consequences
Jianwei (Jerry) Fang, Ke Dong and Chenhao Yuan of Zhong Lun Law Firm analyze new Interim Measures which establish a relationship-safety framework for AI companion services, impose new obligations on service providers and distribution platforms, and reshape compliance expectations for companies offering emotionally interactive AI products in China
Aggie Liu and Muzi Xuan of Baker McKenzie FenXun examine the likely impact of a very significant update to China’s key trademark legislation and extract some important themes for brand owners and platform-based businesses
Xiangxiang Ma, Partner at Anjie Broad LLP, analyzes a newly-released standard which forms a key part of China’s framework regulating clinical trials
AI is now all-pervasive and raises many novel legal issues. Wu Qiong and Wang Xuying of Haiwen & Partners explore a significant Intermediate People’s Court ruling on employee dismissal ostensibly driven by a the adoption of AI technology
Jianwei (Jerry) Fang, Cathy (Yian) Chen and Ke Dong of Zhong Lun Law Firm analyse China’s newly promulgated State Council Regulation on Outbound Investment. This article unpacks how the Regulation reinforces and expands the pre-existing outbound direct investment governance framework, broadens the regulatory perimeter governing cross-border outbound investment activities, and outlines critical compliance ramifications for Chinese enterprises undertaking overseas investment transactions
Jun Luo, a Ph.D. Candidate in Intellectual Property Law at Tongji University Law School, examines a key Supreme People’s Court case from a data law perspective, analyzing its implications for data rights, platform responsibilities, user autonomy, and the evolving interface between data regulation and competition law in China
