What Does China’s New-Ish Data Security Law Mean For You?
China's Data Security Law will impact your U.S. litigation
The Death of Hong Kong Arbitration
One can argue all one wants regarding the risks of Hong Kong arbitration, but the mere fact that a lot more lawyers now view Hong Kong as a riskier arbitration venue than Singapore, New York, Geneva, Paris, and London, ought to be reason enough NOT to draft your contracts with a Hong Kong arbitration provision.
Hague Service of Process on Chinese Defendants
This post describes how to properly effect service of process on a Chinese company or individual under the Hague Convention.
Sinosure and Deliberately Bringing China Down, Factory by Factory
About six months ago, in Deliberately Bringing China Down, Factory by Factory, I wrote about a couple of Americans who were buying product on credit from Chinese factories, with no intention of ever making the required second payment: The “this” to which I am referring is an underground (I say underground because I have never
Litigating Against Foreign Defendants – The Battle for Home Court
When a dispute involves a foreign party, a host of special considerations come into play – one of which is, where will this be litigated?
International Litigation: The Questions to Ask
A basic list of questions companies should be asking when seeking to decide whether to sue in a foreign country and the lawyers to use when doing so.
China Contract Dispute Resolution Clauses: Choose Certainty
My law firm usually drafts contracts with China that provide for them to be governed by Chinese law and resolved in China in Chinese. There are many reasons for this.
Arbitration in China as the New Normal
Chinese companies are increasingly requesting/requiring that their contracts with foreign companies mandate disputes be resolved via arbitration in China.
Choosing Your China Contract Jurisidiction
A new client recently sent our international manufacturing team a contract with one of their China suppliers. They wanted us to review that contract (which had been drafted by a Chinese lawyer based in Shenzhen). Our client had heard about how Chinese lawyers sometimes work in cahoots with the Chinese company on the other side
China Dispute Resolution Clauses
There is no one size fits all solution for China dispute resolution clauses because they depend on so many factors, including, the location of the Chinese company within China, the nature of the transaction, the goals of the parties, the most likely dispute issues, the most important dispute issues, the type of dispute issues, the languages of the documents and potential witnesses, the law of the contract, and a whole host of other issues.