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Looking for trade and customs lawyers in Shanghai? This hub explains how trade and customs work plays out in Shanghai—China's leading commercial and...
Looking for product liability lawyers in Shanghai? This hub explains how product liability work plays out in Shanghai—China's leading commercial and...
Looking for criminal defense lawyers in Shanghai? This hub explains how criminal defense work plays out in Shanghai—China's leading commercial and...
Looking for intellectual property lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how intellectual property work plays out in Shenzhen—a Greater Bay Area tech and...
Looking for employment and labor lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how employment and labor work plays out in Shenzhen—a Greater Bay Area tech and...
Looking for employment and labor lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how employment and labor work plays out in Guangzhou—South China's trade and...
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Looking for intellectual property lawyers in Shanghai? This hub explains how intellectual property work plays out in Shanghai—China's leading commercial...
Looking for employment and labor lawyers in Shanghai? This hub explains how employment and labor work plays out in Shanghai—China's leading commercial...
Looking for criminal defense lawyers in Beijing? This hub explains how criminal defense work plays out in Beijing—China's political and regulatory...
Looking for company formation lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how company formation work plays out in Shenzhen—a Greater Bay Area tech and...
Looking for dispute resolution lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how dispute resolution work plays out in Shenzhen—a Greater Bay Area tech and...
Looking for company formation lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how company formation work plays out in Guangzhou—South China's trade and...
Looking for intellectual property lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how intellectual property work plays out in Guangzhou—South China's trade and...
Looking for company formation lawyers in Hangzhou? This hub explains how company formation work plays out in Hangzhou—a Zhejiang e-commerce and...
Looking for visa and immigration lawyers in Beijing? This hub explains how visa and immigration work plays out in Beijing—China's political and...
Looking for visa and immigration lawyers in Shanghai? This hub explains how visa and immigration work plays out in Shanghai—China's leading commercial...
Looking for real property lawyers in Shanghai? This hub explains how real property work plays out in Shanghai—China's leading commercial and financial...
Looking for business and contract lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how business and contract work plays out in Shenzhen—a Greater Bay Area tech and...
Looking for dispute resolution lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how dispute resolution work plays out in Guangzhou—South China's trade and...
Looking for intellectual property lawyers in Hangzhou? This hub explains how intellectual property work plays out in Hangzhou—a Zhejiang e-commerce and...
Looking for company formation lawyers in Chengdu? This hub explains how company formation work plays out in Chengdu—western China's primary commercial...
Looking for trade and customs lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how trade and customs work plays out in Shenzhen—a Greater Bay Area manufacturing and...
Looking for real property lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how real property work plays out in Shenzhen—one of China’s most competitive commercial and...
Looking for visa and immigration lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how visa and immigration work plays out in Shenzhen—a hub for foreign talent in tech,...
Looking for criminal defense lawyers in Shenzhen? This hub explains how criminal defense work plays out in Shenzhen—a high-growth commercial city where...
Looking for trade and customs lawyers in Beijing? This hub explains how trade and customs work plays out in Beijing—China’s policy and regulatory capital for...
Looking for business and contract lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how business and contract work plays out in Guangzhou—South China’s historic trade...
Looking for trade and customs lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how trade and customs work plays out in Guangzhou—a major South China port and...
Looking for real property lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how real property work plays out in Guangzhou—a large commercial and industrial property...
Looking for visa and immigration lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how visa and immigration work plays out in Guangzhou—a South China hub for regional...
Looking for criminal defense lawyers in Guangzhou? This hub explains how criminal defense work plays out in Guangzhou—a major commercial city where trade and...
Looking for company formation lawyers in Suzhou? This hub explains how company formation work plays out in Suzhou—a Yangtze River Delta manufacturing and FDI...
Looking for intellectual property lawyers in Suzhou? This hub explains how intellectual property work plays out in Suzhou—a manufacturing powerhouse where...
Looking for intellectual property lawyers in Chengdu? This hub explains how intellectual property work plays out in Chengdu—Western China’s tech and...
Looking for company formation lawyers in Nanjing? This hub explains how company formation work plays out in Nanjing—Jiangsu’s capital and a major Yangtze...
Looking for intellectual property lawyers in Nanjing? This hub explains how intellectual property work plays out in Nanjing—a research and industry capital...
Chinese law draws a meaningful distinction between privacy and personal information, and that distinction shapes how individuals protect their rights and how...
At two in the morning, a Beijing e-commerce founder called me in a state of alarm. Her phone number, national ID number, home address, and the final digits of...
Every multinational operating in China eventually confronts the same question: how can our Chinese entity lawfully move employee, customer, or vendor data to...
Almost every week, a distributor or e-commerce seller asks me the same question: is it legal to sell disposable medical devices such as syringes, infusion...
In my work advising technology companies and multinational groups operating out of Shenzhen, the question I hear most often is no longer whether China...
Every time a consumer in China scans a QR code at a shop counter, tops up a prepaid card, or pays for an online order, a licensed payment institution is...
Every week, it seems, another client in Guangzhou sits across from me and asks some version of the same question: "If I use an AI assistant such as Doubao to...
Guangzhou, the southern gateway of the Pearl River Delta, has been a crossroads of international trade for centuries. Today, it is also where many foreign...
Between 2013 and 2018, peer-to-peer lending platforms grew from a niche experiment into a national phenomenon in China, promising retail investors...
In more than seventeen years of practice advising hospitals, research institutions and contract research organisations across Sichuan, I have watched China's...
One of the most frequent questions I hear in my banking and financial services practice in Wuhan is deceptively simple: "If I cannot repay my bank loan, will...
Ask a procurement director in Xiamen who sells into European or North American markets what keeps them up at night, and the answer is increasingly...
Tianjin is a major northern China municipality and port city. Foreign clients use Tianjin counsel for trade and logistics, manufacturing investment,...
Chongqing is a major western China municipality and manufacturing hub. Foreign clients engage local counsel for company setup, factory employment,...
Xi'an is the capital of Shaanxi and the commercial center of northwest China. Foreign clients engage counsel for company setup, technology and...
Ningbo is a major Zhejiang port city and private-economy center. Foreign clients use Ningbo counsel for trade and logistics, manufacturing investment,...
In China, the crime of falsely issuing special value-added tax (VAT) invoices has become one of the fastest-growing tax-related offenses in criminal practice....
Chinese courts have refined the sentencing framework for tax crimes in recent years, and the changes directly affect how companies and executives assess risk....
Tax evasion is one of the most consequential risks a business can face in China, and also one of the most misunderstood. The legal framework draws a careful...
Money-market funds sold through digital payment platforms have transformed how ordinary investors in China hold cash. Yet the convenience of buying a fund...
China's courts apply a single, dynamic ceiling to interest in private lending disputes: four times the one-year Loan Prime Rate (LPR) published by the...
Borrowing and lending in China operate in a dense regulatory environment where the difference between a civil dispute and a criminal offense can turn on a...
When a supplier in China sells goods without a signed paper contract, relying instead on WeChat messages, delivery receipts, and invoices, a buyer's default...
When a buyer has received goods and paid part of the price, can a signature discrepancy on a delivery note wipe out the remaining debt? A recent decision of...
When two people buy a property together, the register often shows them as co-owners, but a later written agreement may tell a different story. In a case...
Buying a second-hand home is often the largest transaction a family will make, and the seller's silence about known defects can turn that purchase into a...
A tenant who rents a street-front shop for a restaurant expects to obtain a business licence and operate lawfully. When the premises cannot support that...
A buyer who is unhappy with a product may sue the seller for a refund, a replacement, or damages. For the seller, the claim often feels like an attack on the...
When a buyer stops paying, a supplier's first instinct is often to stop supplying. The stronger response is to convert the debt into a documented, enforceable...
Legally reviewed by: Peter Ye, Outbound Investment & Foreign Investment Counsel, for mainland PRC FDI, ODI/FX and corporate structuring scope. Last...
Legally reviewed by: Hongliang Xu, Finance & Tax Counsel (Shanghai Pudong), for PRC tax, IIT and transfer-pricing scope. Last legally reviewed: 7 August...
Chinese EV, battery, and component exporters face a stacked compliance map: tariffs and origin, trade-defence investigations (including subsidy-focused...
This handbook expands EU anti-dumping duties: conditions, procedures, and defence strategies into an operational defence map for Chinese exporters and...
The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) prices embedded emissions on selected imported goods so that carbon costs converge with the EU Emissions...
Legally reviewed by: Kathrine Boer, US Sanctions & Export Controls Counsel (Boer & Hendricks, Houston), for US sanctions, EAR and importer-side...
Outbound M&A by Chinese groups often triggers merger control / competition filings in parallel with foreign investment screening (for example CFIUS)....
Chinese manufacturers going global hire local workers, second Chinese expatriates, and sometimes face unions and strikes under host-country law. This guide...
Chinese game studios and short-video platforms expanding overseas face a dual stack: China-side publishing, content and data rules that still constrain the...
Chinese SaaS vendors selling abroad must reconcile China cybersecurity and data-export rules, possible ICP duties for China-facing services, and host-market...
Red-line orientation for teams with China nexus—not investment advice and not a how-to for unlawful token offerings. Overseas structures do not erase China...
Chinese new-tea and restaurant brands expand via company-owned stores, JVs and franchising / master franchise. The work spans trademark races, franchise...
High-end equipment, automation and agricultural technology exports combine export controls, product safety certification, project contracting and — for...
Offshore (and some domestic) family trusts are used for succession, governance, and creditor-planning discussions. For China-connected families,...
Asset isolation means designing ownership, control, and liability so that operating risk, personal claims, and succession events do not automatically collapse...
Sending a minor to school abroad creates a cluster of legal roles: parental responsibility under Chinese family law, host-country guardianship or caregiver...
Patients travel for oncology second opinions, rare-disease therapies, fertility workups, elective procedures, and clinical trials. Legal issues cluster around...
This article explains how Chinese and host-country law characterise surrogacy, parentage, and related documents—and where recognition, registration, and...
Legally reviewed by: Xu Tao, Private Equity & Financial Lawyer, for mainland PRC outbound-investment, financial-regulation and foreign-exchange law. Last...
Moving to the United Kingdom is a major life decision, and one of the first questions families ask is whether they will be treated as UK tax residents and, if...
Families who hold assets in both the United Kingdom and China often assume that one simple will is enough. In practice, cross-border estates raise a series of...
General information only. This guide is orientation for planning and counsel engagement—not legal advice for a live filing, remittance, structure, or...
Related guide collectionsContinue with coordinated practical guides and primary resources.Salary & everyday FX (not property sale)Banking & FX...
General information only. Company Law capital rules, chops, legal representatives, joint-venture governance, profit remittance, and deregistration turn on...
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