Features & Analyses

Danlei Wu of Fangda Partners shines a light on the Supreme People's Court's latest IP annual report, and shows how the SPC is leading the way in developing China's litigation landscape

Lawyers say a new regulation of markets in crypto assets will attract more crypto service providers to the 27-member bloc, as well as generate a wave of regulatory advisory work for law firms.

Five months on from our last article on how companies in China are responding to the country's newest data and personal information regulations, we catch up with some of them to see how they have tackled their respective compliance challenges. We also speak with more lawyers to find out other key uncertainties that are making it difficult to carry out practical compliance changes, as well as the areas that the authorities will likely focus on in terms of future enforcement

Zhou Hanshuo and Yang Licheng of Jingtian & Gongcheng provide an overview of the Draft Human Genetic Resources Regulation Implementing Rules relating to Sino-foreign cooperation and cross-border provision and sharing of HGR information

As China implements a new food security strategy, Beilei Hou, Zi Ling and Ruiqiang He of King & Wood Mallesons examine the resulting challenges as well as the potential opportunities for China's PV industry

Kainan Zhang and Junting Lei of Haiwen & Partners highlight the main PRC foreign exchange regulatory requirements of different types of cross-border investment and trade by domestic and foreign individuals and institutions under capital and current accounts.

The new rules may boost investor confidence and move U.S. listing plans of Chinese companies. But they also may decrease the volume of "homecoming" IPOs in Hong Kong, lawyers say.

The Supreme People's Court has recently issued a significant and wide-ranging interpretation concerning how the general provisions of the PRC Civil Code should be applied. Diane Peng (Partner), Sijia Li (Counsel) and Aubrey Xiong (Associate) of Fangda Partners analyze the potential impact.

Multinational corporations with both a U.S. and China presence may increasingly find themselves caught between two legal systems as both countries implement regulations that seek to achieve diametrically opposite objectives. What are the issues and how should companies prepare and respond?