China’s New Overseas Investment Rules: Can Your Chinese Investor Actually Get the Money Out?
China’s new ODI rules raise a basic deal risk: can your Chinese investor legally move the money out of China and fund the transaction?
What Is the Right Way for a Private Company to Raise Capital from a Chinese Investor?
Raising capital from a Chinese investor? Learn how to structure your deal for CFIUS review and to comply with SEC Regulation S requirements.
Doing Business Internationally: 10 Things to Get Right
Doing business internationally? These 10 practical lessons can help you avoid costly mistakes involving contracts, IP, payments, compliance, employees, and more.
The Documents Are the International Deal
International deals unravel when the documents do not match the real transaction. Accurate contracts, ownership records, and customs filings matter.
China M&A: Should You Use an SPV to Acquire a Chinese Company?
China M&A buyers often face a key structuring question: should the parent company acquire the Chinese target directly, or should it use an SPV?
China Supplier Fraud in Yiwu: Why We Recommended the Police, Not a Lawsuit
A China supplier took $142,000 and failed to ship. Why we advised the buyer to pursue a police complaint in China instead of filing suit.
Buying Expensive Equipment from China: Seven Questions to Answer Before You Pay
Buying expensive equipment from China? Learn seven questions to answer before you pay, covering supplier due diligence, testing, payment terms, and contracts.
Your China Employee Signed the Vacation Policy. You Can Still Lose.
China employers can owe real money for unused statutory annual leave despite a signed “use it or lose it” policy. Learn how to calculate, arrange, document, and pay it correctly.
Protecting Your Artwork Internationally: What Artists Need to Do Before the Work Travels
Learn how artists can protect artwork internationally through copyright, contracts, trademarks, customs recordation, and enforcement.
Who Owns Your Molds? How Overseas Factories Hold Tooling Hostage—and How to Stop Them
Manufacturing abroad? Explore the critical contract terms required to guarantee legal ownership of your tooling & avoid product piracy.
Your China Contract May Bind the Wrong Company
A RedNote dispute and two manufacturing cases show why China contracts must bind the companies that control the factory, tooling, IP, and money.
The 101 on China Product Development Agreements
China product development agreements protect your IP during design phases. Learn essential terms that prevent theft before manufacturing. Read more.