One of the most common calls my law firm receives is the one from someone saying that they want to “start a business in China.” The first thing we do with that sort of caller is to seek t...
By: Steven M. Dickinson U.S. consulting companies are increasingly selling their services in China. This is part of the general trend towards sales into China that we have noted. In confirmation of t...
This blog has been around for more than six years and during that time we have picked up a number of regular e-mailers. Some of these are people who, for whatever reason, refuse to comment on the blo...
By: Rogier Creemers The following is a guest post by Rogier Creemers. Rogier is a post-doctoral Research Officer in Oxford University’s Programme in Comparative Media Law and Policy. Rogier ...
This question has frequently been posed to me by two ethnic Chinese friends of mine who work/worked for massive “international” Chinese companies and one American friend who works/worked ...
By: Mathew Alderson In my previous post, Aussiewood Film Finance And China Co-Productions. Ever The Twain Shall Meet? I explained how a cash rebate equivalent to 40% of feature film production costs ...
So I got an email from a client the other day, sending me a link to a blogpost, which in turn linked over to a “blacklist” (a word I hate and never use) of Chinese manufacturers. The clie...
By: Rachel Buker I just returned from the INTA conference in Washington DC, a gathering of nearly 10,000 intellectual property professionals from around the world. A number of speakers at the confere...
During my recent Los Angeles trip, I met with the person tasked with taking his company’s service business into China. For about an hour we two talked of pretty much nothing but the difficultie...
ABC News is pushing (I received two different emails from ABC on it) a Diane Sawyer/ABC News clip entitled, “‘Made in America’ Products Selling in China.” Though it is the pro...
By: Mathew Alderson During the Beijing International Film Festival last month, several Hollywood executives and film producers expressed interest in the Australian producer offset and asked me whethe...
Just back from Los Angeles, where I met with countless people in the movie industry and discussed with nearly all of them how Chinese entertainment companies are and will be buying into Western enter...
Just got back from Los Angeles, where I met with long-time China hands, Sage Brennan and Renee Hartmann. Since returning to the United States, Sage and Renee have formed China Luxury Advisors, a cons...
Unless you have a perfect mastery of Chinese language, symbolism, and social nuances (and who even has that of their own country, anyway?), consider picking up a copy of Anne-Laure Monfret’s Saving F...
Finally getting around to reading AmCham’s 2012 China Business Climate Survey Report and the news/numbers are actually pretty good. The numbers are not as good as last year’s, but conside...
In just the last few weeks I have become aware of two potentially harmful myths regarding the United States’ Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA). The first myth relates to who makes the paymen...
One of our clients recently asked for our help “making sure” it could get a U.S. visa for one of its China-based Chinese managers. The client wanted this manager to come to the United Sta...
My firm has been gearing up for a couple of CIETAC commercial arbitrations against Chinese companies and one thing we can state with near certainty is that neither will settle. The reason for this is...
Interesting article in the most recent issue of James Zimmerman’s monthly newsletter. Zimmerman authored the truly first-rate (and comprehensive) China Law Deskbook. If you are going to buy one...
Too good a line not to repeat. It is from the China Business Leadership Blog, in a post entitled Is the End of Cheap China the End of China for the West? The post is on how AmCham’s recent Chin...
Interesting article in today’s Daily Telegraph, written by the Telegraph’s Beijing correspondent, Malcolm Moore. The article is entitled, ”Asda in China? That’ll be Mr Liu in ...
Little bit behind on my Economist reading, but just read a seriously thought provoking article, entitled, “The third industrial revolution: The digitisation of manufacturing will transfo...
Got an email recently from someone who had contacted me months ago regarding a potential litigation matter against a Chinese company. The case was not terribly complicated and so I recommended this p...
Our Beijing-based entertainment lawyer, Mathew Alderson, has been attending (and speaking at) the Beijing International Film Festival. Not surprisingly, Mathew reports that the talk of the town is th...
Someone should have told me that April is China scam month, because I always thought it was December (see Ancient China Business Scam. Back With A Vengeance This Season). My firm has gotten more emai...
On Wednesday, April 25th, 2012, I will be on a breakfast panel discussing “Doing Business With China” as part of the Economist’s Business Without Borders breakfast series. This even...
Apple iPad Event (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Bloomberg News just came out with a story, entitled, “China Court Encourages Apple, Proview to Settle Dispute,” describing the latest goings-on ...
I spend pretty much all day reading for work and so when I read during my off-hours, I tend to prefer fun and light. And this is especially true of work related books. And let’s get real here a...
By Steve Dickinson and Mathew Alderson In the first part of this two part series, in a post entitled “China’s Film Industry Promotion Law. A Discussion Of The Discussion Draft,” we discus...
The 2nd Beijing International Film Festival starts early next week. One of the first events on the program is the Australia-China Film Industry Forum at the Australian Embassy on Monday, April 23. Ou...
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