Steve Dickinson On China Joint Ventures At JP Morgan's China Conference. Beijing, April 24.

China Law Blog's own Steve Dickinson will be speaking on China Joint Ventures (JVs) at JP Morgan's upcoming China Conference. This yearly conference, which truly is THE China conference, will take place at the Grand Hyatt in Beijing (already sold out) from April 23 to April 25 and it will, as always, include a huge roster of the leading China experts in various fields. Click here for the draft agenda.

JP Morgan describes its conference as follows:

As China's largest investment forum, this pre-eminent conference attracts over 1,500 delegates from more than 30 countries and incorporates in excess of 2,000 one-on-one meetings that place the world's investment elite face-to-face with CEOs & CFOs of China's best companies. Also on offer are presentations from 200 speakers, including China's brightest corporate minds, top-level government officials who are shaping China's future and China's most notable industry experts and think-tanks from JPMorgan's Hands-On China Series.

Our commitment to you:

- Presentations from more than 200 speakers, customized to meet your investment needs
- Exclusive roundtable discussions with the CEOs of China's leading companies, as part of the JPMorgan China CEO Forum
- Cutting-edge commentary from multinationals, think-tanks and independent industry experts from JPMorgan's Hands-On China Series
- Informative discussions with top-level government officials
- Sector updates and outlook on key policies from JPMorgan analyst teams
- Exceptional site visits and plant tours

This past summer, Steve gave a JP Morgan "Hands-On China" lecture in Shanghai on China Joint Ventures, focusing on the lessons to be learned from the Danone Wahaha dispute. Steve then did a follow up article on the same topic for the China Economic Review, entitled, "Danone v. Wahaha." A gross summarization of Steve's view on China joint ventures (actually, not just China) is that Western companies are sometimes too quick to partake of them without fully understanding their potential repercussions. I wrote something similar for the Wall Street Journal in a piece entitled, "China's Joint Venture Jeopardy." Joint ventures do have a place in China business, but far too many unscrupulous business consultants push them simply to make a buck/Yuan when various other methods of getting into China would be both better and cheaper for the Western company.

Steve is scheduled to speak on Thursday, April 24, from 17:00 to 18:00 in the Grand Ballroom Number 1. The title of his talk is "Pitfalls of Establishing Joint Ventures in China."

I plan to attend most of the conference and I hope to see you all there.

China Venture News already posted on this conference. For more on this panel and on the conference as a whole, check out Shaun's post, entitled, "Preview of JP Morgan's China Conference."