During an interview with Oregon Public Radio the other day, I was asked where I saw the most opportunity for foreign businesses in China. My answer was education, healthcare, food, cleantech/greentech, and software. It is the same five industries I have been saying for years and the one that always seems to draw the most [...]
Our mission statement (which has been around since January, 2006) makes clear we will not shy away from controversy:
We will be challenging various misconceptions the West has about law in China, including that the law in China does not really matter or that guanxi can supplant it. We will help you figure out how you can [...]
Though my firm represents Chinese companies in the United States, we never represent Chinese companies in China. This means that when we are retained to register trademarks in China, we almost always are registering existing names and those names are almost always in English, or at least in the Roman alphabet.
About 80 percent of [...]
Every so often, a client will remark on how there is “no way” its Chinese competitor can be selling a particular product at such a low price. We then talk about all the ways the Chinese company can, in fact, be selling the product at below what it costs my American client to make it. [...]
David Wolf over at The Silicon Hutong blog is just out with a post riffing on the meaning of guanxi. It’s superb. The post is entitled, A Few Notes on Guanxi, and what it does better than anything I have seen to date, is accurately and concisely define guanxi. It is so good and so [...]
Excellent post on King & Wood’s China Law Insight Blog on resale price maintenance in China, entitled, “Rules Governing Resale Price Maintenance in China.” Now before you just up and run away from this post, believing there is no way an antitrust concept can be relevant to your business in China, let me tell you [...]
A few months ago, I was speaking with Michael Perry, a Vice President at DLD Insurance Brokers in Los Angeles. Micheal has a wealth of experience in placing international insurance policies and I was picking his brain regarding product liability policies for U.S. companies that get their product from China when I realized Michael’s knowledge would be [...]
China Sourcer Magazine is out with its second issue and it is good. The issue is dedicated to China trade shows and it is chock full of helpful information on what to do before, during, and after a China trade show.
My favorite part of this issue was actually the Q&A section with the editor [...]
I am always getting asked deep questions regarding China’s economy and I almost always demur because I am not an economist.
But is China experiencing a bubble, people always want to know? Based on my experience of having been intimately involved (from the legal side) with two bubbles (the dot.com and the real estate bubble), my feeling [...]
I admit it. The more depressing and violent and gritty the movie or the TV show, the more I like it.
And as a lawyer, I take perverse pleasure in using gruesome stories to scare people straight. At my last speaking event, I told of how my old law firm had lost its insider standing with [...]