Just got an email announcing the posting of a webcast entitled, “ ‘China Joint Ventures: Context, Contacts and Contracts” that seems very interesting. Slides and audio, and it’s also free. This is a webcast that is intended for in-house counsel, but I have a feeling that many (law students, outside counsel) will find the information [...]
Got an email some time ago that’s been sitting in my email box, and another email recently came that made me go back to it and think about it some more. Someone wrote to me with a link that includes 50 online courses about China, language, history, business, and more. And of course, the blog [...]
Looks like Sidley Austin has opted to tap an American attorney from its executive committee to lead the Asia Pacific region offices. The firm announced in a press release, “Sidley Austin Management and Executive Committee Member, Thomas W. Albrecht, Relocates to Hong Kong as Managing Partner, Asia Pacific”. More details after the jump. Here is [...]
Almost one year ago, I received my copy of Paul Midler’s book Poorly Made in China: An Insider’s Account of the Tactics Behind China’s Production Game. I promised to do a review during paternity leave. Obviously that did not happen. However, in the plane a month ago, I actually had a chance to finish this [...]
This time, its Gibson Dunn making a move to open a new office in Hong Kong. According to the firm, it’s their second Asia office, alongside Singapore. Should be an interesting experiment as they are taking not only a general corporate focus, but a compliance aspect in hiring an FCPA expert to anchor this office. [...]
Got an email the other day for a free CLE seminar entitled “The Top 3 FCPA Cases of 2010 – What Went Wrong, Red Flags and Lessons Learned!” Actually looks really interesting, and if I wasn’t booked already in the morning, I would attend. Here are the details: September 30, 2010 Registration: 8:00 Program Starts: [...]
Fairly regularly, we get an email from a foreigner living in China who wants to go into business in China with their girlfriend/fiancé/wife’s family (yes it is always a male). This person wants to know how they can do this and we tell them that there are really only two ways. One is [...]
For many years now I have been a happy member of the excellent and venerable ChinaLaw ListServe. The ListServe is expertly run by Donald Clarke, a law professor at George Washington University and the force behind the seminal China Law Prof Blog.
The ListServ has been in existence since 2004 and it has nearly 1,400 subscribers, including [...]
Since 2007, the Experience Not Logic blog was a vital China law blog. Then, in late 2009, it went silent as its founder and driving force, Will Lewis, embarked on his LLM in Tax from NYU School of Law, where he focused on international transactional tax. Now that Will has graduated he is back to [...]
China Economic Review is just out with an article by co-blogger Steve Dickinson entitled,”Calling their bluff.” The subtitled explains the article: “Foreign investors are queuing up to criticize China, but Beijing knows they aren’t about to leave, says Steven M. Dickinson.”
Steve starts out by citing to the recent rash of foreign companies criticizing China government [...]