During the first 25 years of China’s opening up process, joint ventures were the favored vehicle for FDI in China. In 2005, the favored form of investment shifted away from JVs to direct investment through WOFEs (Wholly Foreign Owned Entities). During the last year, however, foreign SMEs have been shifting away from WFOEs and back… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: China joint ventures
China Joint Ventures. Watching The Sausage Get Made.
Posted in Legal NewsNot sure why (the still bad economy?) but my law firm has been getting a rash of China joint venture deals and possible deals over the last six months or so. Many of these have involved a United States company that wants to enter into a Joint Venture with its China manufacturer so as to… Continue Reading
How To Handle Chinese Negotiating Tactics. Part Three.
Posted in China BusinessBy: Steve Dickinson This is the final of our three part series on how to handle Chinese negotiating tactics. Part One can be found here. Part Two can be found here. Following on my previous two posts on Chinese negotiating techniques, in this post I will discuss two additional and common techniques used by Chinese companies to drive… Continue Reading
China Joint Ventures. Are You On The Same Page?
Posted in Legal NewsWhen it comes to forming China joint ventures, the biggest issue is obviously whether or not it makes sense to form one. The most important question relating to whether it makes sense to form a China joint venture is usually whether you will be able to work well with your putative Chinese joint venture partner. … Continue Reading
Why Is China Cheaper? Truths And Myths.
Posted in China BusinessGot an email from a client/friend yesterday with a link to an Industry Week Article and a note saying that i needed to give this “CLB’s dumbest article of the month award.” We do not actually have such an award (should we?) so for that reason alone, it is not in contention. Bad articles on… Continue Reading
How We Really Feel About China, Part III. Chinese Law, And Our Own Blog.
Posted in China Business, Recommended ReadingThis is part III of our relatively new series setting forth how we “really feel” about the issues that have generated controversy on our blog over the years.” Part I dealt with guanxi and the comments to that postalone have made it a great read. In Part II we talked of how we love joint ventures because… Continue Reading
Fellowes “Brought To Its Knees In China.” Blame The Joint Venture?
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsFascinating article by Matthew Robertson, entitled, “Fellowes, American Stationary Giant, Brought to Its Knees in China.” A couple of readers sent me the article and both of them commented on how it further proves what “you are always saying about Chinese joint ventures.” I am not so sure it does. The article is about Fellowes,… Continue Reading
China Legal Issues For Business. The Ten Minute Version. Part II.
Posted in Legal NewsI spoke last week (for ten minutes) in Atlanta at NACA’s First Annual US-China Business Conference. I posted that speech (the written version of it, anyway) in a post entitled China Legal Issues For Business. The Ten Minute Version. In going through and deleting old emails today, I came across my first, very different version… Continue Reading
China Legal Issues For Business. The Ten Minute Version.
Posted in Basics of China Business LawI spoke yesterday at the 2010 U.S. China Business Conference in Atlanta. I was tasked with talking about the legal issues American businesses face in China and the legal issues Chinese businesses face in the United States. Here is my speech: I am going to be talking about the legal issues facing U.S. businesses that… Continue Reading
How We Really Feel About China, Part II: Joint Ventures. We Love Them AND We Hate Them.
Posted in Legal NewsThis is part II of our relatively new series setting forth how we “really feel” about the issues that have generated controversy on our blog over the years. Part I dealt with guanxi and the comments to that post alone have made it a great read. We started this series because “we have taken many… Continue Reading
China Law. Making Money Off The Misery Of Others.
Posted in Legal NewsA truism about lawyers is that we benefit when the economy is either rising or falling, so long as there is change. I was talking with a China lawyer friend the other day regarding his firm’s very small China office and we both talked of how we were getting all sorts of work related to… Continue Reading
China Joint Ventures. Who’s Your Partner?
Posted in Legal NewsBy Steve Dickinson The Chinese Supreme Court recently issued a set of regulations to be used in court cases involving disputes within foreign invested enterprises (最高人民法院关于审理外商投资企业纠纷案件若干问题的规定). These regulations came into effect on August 16, 2010. The official Chinese version can be found on the Supreme Court website here. Though the Regulations are technically concerned with… Continue Reading
The Basics On China Pharma, Part 3: Mistakes To Be Avoided.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsThis post is part 3 of a three part series by Robert Walsh, the founder of Samsara Biopharma Consulting, and his colleagues, Jennie Shi, Wendy Zheng, and Zhou Tong. It is a follow up to “The Basics on China Pharma” and “The Basics On China Pharma, Part 2: Getting Into China The Slow Hard Way.”… Continue Reading
China Supply Chain Problems. Maybe It’s All In Your Head.
Posted in China BusinessReceived a very nice email this morning from Keith, a Birmingham, Alabama 3L with a quite good blog called An Associate’s Mind. Keith was writing to pass on a blog post on China supply chain problems. The post is “Supply Chain Risk: Culture Shock,” and it is on an academic article that posits that many… Continue Reading
Doing Business In China Director’s Conference. Beijing And Shanghai, March 28 Through April 3.
Posted in EventsGlobal Navigation, a peer to peer resource for boards of directors of multinational corporations and an affiliate of Corporate Board Member magazine, is putting on a seminar on board-related issues involving China. Its agenda and the speakers are absolutely first rate and I plan to attend. China Law Blog’s own Steve Dickinson will be speaking… Continue Reading
To Succeed In China Know The Now
Posted in China BusinessThe Diligence China Blog recently did a helpful post entitled “Look to the Future of China, Not Just Its Past: Success in China Will Come From Its Future Not Its History.” [link no longer exists] I agree. This post says too much ink is devoted to comparing “traditional Chinese methods” with “Western methods” of doing… Continue Reading
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