Features & Analyses

A brief look at regulations that shaped Taiwan's investment landscape over the past year

Taiwan banks have entered a new era with the amended cross-strait banking rules allowing them to set up branches in China and directly make equity investments in Chinese banks. Future prospects appear even brighter since the signing of the ECFA, as further relaxations of cross-strait restriction are expected by the Taiwanese banking community

China has been making a very conspicuous push towards implementing greener policies that will affect manufacturing industries. Here, three specialists provide insight and advice into what regulations to pay particular attention to, and how foreign companies can remain compliant and possibly beneft from these new environmentally-friendly policies.

China's antitrust regulators recently released new draft regulations that address, among other key clarifications, the enforcement of prohibitions in the anti-monopoly law. However, one notable area the draft omits is how the competition rules will treat intellectual property

With new measures allowing overseas private equity players to adopt a new structure for its Rmb funds, authorities have yet to concretely define certain terms of a partnership in order to set a conclusive tax rate

Taiwan is increasingly becoming an attractive destination for technology companies to conduct their initial public offerings and list their securities, so interested issuers should familiarise themselves with the listing process and related legal matters

A series of new policies recently released to attract foreign investment demonstrates China's aim to diversify foreign direct investment, channel money into the central and western regions, and encourage environmentally-friendly and high-tech industries to set up onshore. However, the rules are fairly general and more legislation will be needed for proper implementation

A series of new policies recently released to attract foreign investment demonstrates China's aim to diversify foreign direct investment, channel money into the central and western regions, and encourage environmentally-friendly and high-tech industries to set up onshore. However, the rules are fairly general and more legislation will be needed for proper implementation

With the new PRC Tort Liability Law coming into effect on July 1 2010, CLP contacted a number of China-based in-house counsel to find out what their thoughts were on the potential impact of the new regulation on their business. Here's what some of them had to say: