Jeanette Chan, managing partner – China Practice, and David Lee, counsel at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison speaks to China Law & Practice about the key regulations, foreign investment trends and personal data issues governing cloud computing in China
The Supreme People's Court (SPC) released a five-year plan to incorporate the country's socialist corevalues in handling judicial interpretation. Susan Finder, who has been observing the SPC for thelast 25 years and who was recently appointed as one of the 32 members of the international expertcommittee of the China International Commercial Court (CICC), shares with China Law & Practicethe SPC's approach as to how these socialist values will be incorporated into judicial interpretations.Her remarks are her own and should not be attributed either to the SPC or the CICC
Shamita Etienne-Cummings, partner at White & Case in Washington, D.C., and Bijal Vakil, partner at the firm in Silicon Valley, discuss the trends and significance of technology patents covering blockchain, fintech and autonomous vehicles sphere in the U.S. and China
Innovation lies in the heart of China's efforts in developing its dispute resolution mechanisms as it strives to stay at the top of the game in international disputes, especially with Belt and Road Initiative looming with endless possibilities of potential differences
Vivian Wu, counsel, and Xuan He, associate at FenXun Partners, in Beijing discuss the new rule issued by China's National Health Commission regulating the administration of data protection in the healthcare and medical industry
Clark Wang of Sir Oswald Cheung's Chambers, Hong Kong, discusses the key considerations lawyers should take into account when advising clients for divorces with cross-border elements on whether divorce proceedings should be heard in Chinese courts or in Hong Kong courts
Aaron Cutler, partner at Hogan Lovells, Washington, D.C. speaks to China Law & Practice on the new rules of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) and its potential impact on Chinese investments in the U.S. Lawyers and in-house counsel should potentially understand the stricter controls imposed as the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA) will significantly increase the number of transactions subject toCFIUS' review
By Dieter Gericke, Gregor Bühler, Felix Dasser, Marcel Dietrich, Martin Grod and Reto Heuberger of Homburger AG
As more U.S. and Chinese companies enter into business relationships, contractual arbitration provisions are becoming more important. Susan Leader, Brett Manisco, and Kristen Chin of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld consider the differences between US and Chinese litigation in court and private arbitration.
William Marshall of Tiang & Co speaks to Jacelyn Johnson about the exciting times of being a trade lawyer amidst a burgeoning trade war between US and China, the impact of tariffs, and what lawyers should expect and be mindful of when negotiating or advising on export and import matters, foreign investments, tax and customs regulations and other trade related issues when dealing with China.
