Features & Analyses

Established in 2014, the New Development Bank was set up by China and the four other BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India and South Africa) to finance infrastructure and sustainable development projects in the BRICS and other emerging economies. As of July 2020, the NDB has approved loans of $18.6 billion. Abhimanyu Ghosh, Senior Counsel at the NDB based in the bank's headquarters in Shanghai, discusses his role at the bank, the bank's rapid response to COVID-19, setting environmental and social terms for their loans, as well as how working for a multilateral development bank is different from working for a law firm. The in-house legal team at the NDB was the winner of the In-House Team of the Year International at the recent 2020 China Law and Practice Awards.

As the first VIE+CDR Chinese tech firm has been listed on Shanghai's A-share market, Bing Xue and Xiaoxi Liu of Han Kun Law Offices look at the impact of the reform on other Chinese companies wishing to return to the domestic market

Myra Gao, head of legal at Danfoss China, has played a critical role in helping her company navigate a turbulent business and investment landscape over the last year. Worsening U.S.-China relations and the COVID-19 pandemic have thrown up difficult challenges for companies in China from supply chain issues to data privacy. In this interview, the winner of the General Counsel of the Year International at China Law and Practice Awards 2020 shares insights into how she helped steer her company through these unprecedented challenges to the point of even forecasting growth this year.

Foreign companies, including third country companies, face conflicting regulatory obligations amid tit-for-tat U.S.-China export control reforms

Timothy Bickham, Matthew Bathon, Michael Flynn-O'Brien and Hui Shen of Steptoe & Johnson LLP discuss the patent infringement battle between Autel Robotics, which they represented, and DJI and the strategies used to enable smaller or foreign companies facing patent litigation in the United States to not only defend but counter-attack a much larger opponent

Foreign-related awards are not necessarily more enforceable than foreign awards

The role of the general counsel is more important than ever as companies face wave after wave of uncertainty due to the pandemic

With a new Chinese blacklist on one side and tightening U.S. export controls on the other, U.S. companies in China are between a rock and a hard place

Bing Xue and Yang Chen of Han Kun Law Offices examine why Chinese companies are heading home to list on the A-share market or HKEX and discuss key listing requirements and conditions for red-chip enterprises listing on the STAR Market and HKEX Main Board including the vetting process