“At the moment companies look to Hong Kong as a way of having one foot in China but keeping the other foot out of all the complications that doing business in mainland China brings,” said Fred Rocafort, a lawyer at Harris Sliwoski who has more than a decade of international legal experience, primarily in China, Vietnam and Thailand. “To the extent that you start moving in the direction of having, if not both feet, let’s say almost both feet in the mainland, that’s going to be a problem.”
Fred Rocafort in Law360
