Legal

David Ip has been welcomed back to his old firm Simmons & Simmons after leaving to join Fried Frank in January 2006. The real-estate senior associate will…

Paul Hastings, Janofsky & Walker represented Wal-Mart in its acquisition of a 35% stake in Chinese retailer Bounteous, which runs 100 hypermarkets throughout…

International business leaders say Hong Kong is one of the least-corrupt places in Asia to do business, according to a study released by the Hong Kong-based…

The National People's Conference (NPC) enacted its first law specifically protecting private property rights on the final day of its annual two-week session…

China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) will not change sentences in death penalty cases, according to Chinese news agency Xinhua. Instead, if it finds errors…

Prosecutors in China will investigate cases "which people care about deeply" in 2007, according to the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP).The cases are…

Wen Jie and Richard Wageman discuss the development of the exponentially growing franchising market in China, against which the most recently promulgated franchising legislation is interpreted.

China continues to develop its legal regime protecting the creation and development of new plant varieties with the issuance of new rights and remedies available for infringement disputes involving new plant varieties.

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer advised on the initial public offering (IPO) and Hong Kong stock exchange listing by China Agri-Industries Holdings, the…