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Offshore Arbitration — The Best Option for Non-Chinese Clients in China?
Foreign parties usually prefer to elect an offshore arbitration forum to settle potential disputes in Sino-foreign joint venture contracts, international trade contracts or financing agreements with a Chinese entity due to lack of understanding and exposure to Chinese arbitration institutions. However, when enforcing offshore arbitration, foreign parties often face various practical barriers. Moreover, offshore arbitration is usually time and money consuming. This article explains why foreign arbitration may not be the effective dispute resolution.
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How Luxury Brands Can Cooperate with Agents to Protect Their Rights
As China' s economy continues to develop, the Chinese people will begin to develop an appetite for consumer goods. Moreover, as more the Chinese consume more, they will begin to crave more name brand luxury goods to show status in society. Luxury goods makers should take advantage of the potential the Chinese market offers, but they must insure that when they enter the Chinese market they partner with the right people to properly promote and protect their brand.
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New Stock Exchange Listing Rules Improves Regulation of China' s Capital Market
The Shanghai Stock Exchange and the Shenzhen Stock Exchange updated their listing rules on September 4, 2008. These updates improve the regulation of the Chinese capital markets by clarifying several issues. Specifically, the amendments to the listing rules make changes to the lock-up period that stock in newly listed companies face, they clarify the exchanges' rules for company' s information disclosure, they establish rules for suspending trading in a company' s shares, and they clarify the procedure that shall be followed when company' s are delisted.