Legal

Clifford Chance partner Kathy Honeywood has relocated from London to Shanghai for a short-term secondment.When on an earlier posting to Shanghai in 2006-7,…

A recent circular relaxes approval authority for foreign-invested venture capital funds. It is the latest in a line of regulatory changes which may create a useful foreign exchange control niche for these enterprises. By Richard Guo, Stephanie Zhu and Flora Qian, Fangda Partners.

Insurance companies allowed to invest in local government bonds, medium-term notes and Hong Kong-issued SOE bonds.

Raymond [email protected] April 2009, the Chinese Supreme People's Court (SPC) published its list of model IP cases for 2008. These…

An insurance company or insurance asset management company shall establish different grades of stock pools, such as a prohibited pool, reserve pool and core pool.

The Court presents its most significant IP cases of 2008.

China's M&A Rules effectively blocked domestic Chinese companies from raising money on overseas capital markets. But recent Ministry of Commerce guidelines may have provided a way out. By Zhou Jiaxing, Or & Partners, Hong Kong.

China recently suffered its biggest-ever food safety incident, involving Sanlu Dairy. The country's product liability laws are now undergoing unprecedented change. By Satpal Gobindpuri and Sammy Fang, DLA Piper.

Herbert Smith has opened a restructuring practice in Hong Kong with the hire of partner Michael Barker.Barker will focus on restructuring and insolvency…