Over the years my law firm has been called in a number of times to try to get rid of an out of control Legal Representative of a WOFE. Typically, the company calling us thinks that it ought to be able to rid itself of its WFOE Legal Representative simply by issuing a resolution making… Continue Reading
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Signing And Chopping A China Contract. It’s Complicated.
Posted in Legal News“Stole” the below from an email on which I was cc’ed from one of my firm’s China lawyers setting forth who from a China SOE (State Owned Entity) should sign its China contract. 1. SOEs have business licenses just like other Chinese companies. 2. Each Chinese company has only one “legal representative” (a term of… Continue Reading
How To Write A Chinese Contract That Works. Part II.
Posted in Legal NewsA member of our China Law Blog Group on Linkedin left the following comment (modified slightly) regarding Chinese company names, prompting this post: Recently I happened to meet with a Chinese lawyer in Qingdao who told me about how the Province [Shangdong] registers the Chinese name of a company. The companies are registered only with… Continue Reading
China Scam Alert: The Different Company Bank Account. Again.
Posted in China BusinessSomeone should have told me that April is China scam month, because I always thought it was December (see Ancient China Business Scam. Back With A Vengeance This Season). My firm has gotten more emails and phone calls this month from foreign companies scammed by Chinese manufacturers than any month ever. Since I am guessing… Continue Reading
How To Write A Chinese Contract That Works.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, China Business, Legal NewsIf you want to greatly increase your chances of being able to enforce your contract with your Chinese counter-party, you should do the following (you should do a lot more than this, both within and outside your contract, but I am limiting this post to just those things directly related to being able to enforce… Continue Reading
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