Features & Analyses

The new law should give investors more certainty with regarding the possibility of recovery for their capital invested.

The PRC Anti-monopoly Law codifies existing rules and establishes a basic legal framework to build a fair, uniform, and national competition-based economic system.

The Lawyer's Law is expected to make a major contribution to strengthening the independence of China's legal profession, and help enhance the quality and diversity of legal services available in China.

The Futures Companies Measures are particularly helpful in examining and understanding the re-emergence of the financial futures industry in China and the evolving regime that will regulate its practice.

The article helps legal departments of foreign companies in China to better understand the new law and legally maximize their interest under the restrictions of the Anti-Monopoly Law.

The Lawyer's Law is expected to make a major contribution to strengthening the independence of China's legal profession, and help enhance the quality and diversity of legal services available in China.

The article explores available options to extend the full protection under the 'new generation' of bilateral investment treaties to otherwise unprotected investors.

Parties to foreign-related contracts have been free to choose which country's law govern their contracts - except where PRC law is mandatory. The new Provisions provide better guidance on deciding the governing law of the contract.

Recent legislation has filled the gaps in the PRC's qualified domestic institutional investor (QDII) regulations. Changes affect China's balance of payments and international relations.