Legislation

The Supreme People’s Court last month released a five-year plan to incorporate the country’s socialist core values in handling judicial interpretation. Susan Finder, who has been observing the SPC for the last 25 years and who was recently appointed as one of the 32 members of the international expert committee of the China International Commercial Court (CICC), shares with China Law and Practice the 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.

The scope of tax deferral is expanded for foreign investors

A soil quality investigation is required for a change in land use

Shanghai-London Stock Connect comes closer to launch

Futures companies are now opened to foreign investors

Enterprises are restricted from purchasing housing in Shanghai

A 3-year limitation period is applied to civil law cases

Issued: July 20 2018     Main contents: The category of an asset management plan shall be determined based on the following provisions:   (1)  …

Insurance companies are required to include independent directors.

Aaron Cutler, Partner at Hogan Lovells, Washington, D.C. speaks to Jacelyn Johnson on the new CFIUS rulings and its potential impact on Chinese investments in the U.S. Lawyers and in-house counsels should potentially understand the stricter controls imposed as FIRRMA will significantly increase the number of transactions subject to CFIUS’ review.