Features & Analyses

• In-House Insights: Self-Survival by Helping Business Partners Survive with Myra Gao, Danfoss China GC

  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.

  October 30, 2020

  

• China's Export Control Law Redefines National Security, Deters Business with Foreign Customers

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

  October 23, 2020

  

• How to Defeat Goliath in a Patent Infringement Battle

  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

  October 15, 2020

  

• Guangzhou Court Rules ICC Arbitration Award Chinese, Not Foreign

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

  October 07, 2020

  

• In-House Insights: Helping Businesses Expand in China with Judy Wong, Tricor Group GC

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

  September 25, 2020

  

• US Companies Face Compliance Dilemma as China Publishes Unreliable Entity List Rules

  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

  September 23, 2020

  

• Key Policies Driving U.S.-Listed Chinese Companies' Renewed Interest in Mainland China and Hong Kong Financial Markets

  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

  September 21, 2020

  

• Chinese Investment in EU Enters Uncharted Territory with New Investment Screening Reforms

  The EU foreign investment review regime is undergoing seminal reforms with Chinese investment in the crosshairs

  September 14, 2020

  

• Supreme People's Court Issues Guiding Opinions on the Handling of COVID-Related Cases

  Wan Jia, Liu Sichen and Hannibal El-Mohtar of Anjie Law Firm highlight some of the practical aspects of the SPC Guiding Opinions and their roles in the trial, practice and resolution of COVID-related cases

  September 04, 2020

  

• Chinese Investment in US Plummets Under Increased Scrutiny, But Not Impossible

  In 2019, China has lost its top spot for U.S. foreign investment reviews, a distinction it held since 2011.

  August 20, 2020