A few weeks ago, I met with Scott Markman and John Yang of the Monogram Group, a Chicago advertising, branding, and market research company. What differentiates the Monogram Group and what led to our meeting is their China practice, which they describe as follows: In 2007, Monogram established the first branding practice in the US… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: Doing Business in China
China Importation 101. Part II.
Posted in China BusinessChina is evolving and certain things that were “no big deal” five years ago are a big deal now. Dealing with China customs law is a prime example of that. If you are a foreign company doing business in China that involves importing products into China (or exporting, but less so), it behooves you now… Continue Reading
Five Tips For Good Translations At Your China Meetings
Posted in China BusinessThough Steve Barru only recently started his China Business Hand Blog, I am already a big fan. Steve is just back in the United States after 25 years in China and it would be no exaggeration to call him a China hand. I spoke with Steve for a spell a few weeks ago and at the end… Continue Reading
China Importation 101
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsChina is evolving and certain things that were “no big deal” five years ago are a big deal now. Dealing with China customs law is a prime example of that. My law firm does not generally handle routine customs matters, believing that they are better left to non-lawyers who specialize in that; it just usually… Continue Reading
China Has Become So Popular, Nobody Goes There Anymore.
Posted in China BusinessI spent much of last week in Chicago meeting with “China people” and “talking China” and I left there with one inescapable conclusion: China is changing. No drum roll please. Of course China is changing you are saying, but how? The conclusion is that China is getting more difficult for foreign companies, but why and… Continue Reading
The How Comes Of China Law Blog
Posted in China BusinessI have always hated book and movie reviews that focus on what the book or movie should have been about, but wasn’t. For example, the movie Lincoln, which I loved, took heat from some critics for not focusing nearly enough on the conditions of slavery, as opposed to its abolition. My thinking whenever I see… Continue Reading
China Intellectual Property Law. A Radio Interview For World Intellectual Property Rights Day
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsI have to admit that one of the things I love about both China and Russia is that they take various international days seriously, that nobody even knows about in the United States. I suspect that is due to communism and/or its remnants. Anyway, as part of today’s World Intellectual Property Rights Day (how many… Continue Reading
China Is Getting Tougher On Foreign Business. Stay Flexible And It Will Be Just Fine…
Posted in China BusinessOne of the themes of this blog for years has been that China is making things tougher for foreign businesses by increasing the strength of its business laws and by stepping up its enforcement of them against foreign companies. We hear that the same thing is happening to Chinese domestic companies, but starting from a… Continue Reading
Legal Protection In Fashion (China Too). A Panel Discussion.
Posted in EventsTomorrow morning (Thursday, April 25), from 11:15 a.m. until 12:45 p.m. there will be a panel discussion at the Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle on “Legal Protection in Fashion.” Because so much clothing and footwear is being made in China and Southeast Asia, there will no doubt be discussion regarding fashion companies protecting… Continue Reading
A Legal Checklist For Doing Business In China
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsClients, potential clients and/or the press are always asking me what foreign companies doing business in China need to know to stay out of legal trouble. My initial response is usually just a sigh. Since a client recently asked me to speak at his company about the legal issues of which it should be aware,… Continue Reading
Doing business in China: Being efficient isn’t enough
Posted in China Business, Recommended ReadingJust read a fascinating post at a fascinating blog with which I was not previously familiar. The blog is Global Michigan, and it is run by William Foreman as a “showcase” for the international research and other internationally related activity at the University of Michigan. If you are interested in the world (and who isn’t), I recommend… Continue Reading
China Joint Ventures Are Back And Contracts Are The New In Thing. The New Reality Of China Foreign Investment.
Posted in China Business, Legal NewsDuring 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
Doing Business In China. Sometimes Your Best Option Isn’t So Great Either.
Posted in China BusinessMany months ago, we did a post on how to structure revenue sharing on a China film deal to garner a fair share of the box office receipts. We did that post as a Q & A between our China film lawyer, Mathew Alderson and Rob Buckham, of Oceana Films China. the gist of it went as… Continue Reading
Register Your China Trademark Or Go Home, Part II.
Posted in Basics of China Business Law, Legal NewsLate last week, we did a post, Register Your China Trademark Or Go Home, screaming about the importance of foreign companies that do business in or with China (including those foreign companies that do nothing more than have their products made in China) registering their trademarks in China. That post was in response to “East Asia Company”… Continue Reading
Doing Business In China By Making Nice With The Government
Posted in China BusinessAs regular readers of this blog know, I am a huge Apple fan and my fandom extends to how Apple has operated in China. For example, see The Apple Way To Succeed In China. They Did It My Way, in which I defend Apple against various pundit accusations. So I have not really thought much of… Continue Reading
Competing In China’s Commercial Truck Market. A Five Part Series Everyone Should Read.
Posted in China BusinessYes I know few of you are interested in China’s commercial truck market. I am somewhat interested in China’s commercial truck market, but only because I used to do all of the international work for a large commercial truck manufacturer until it was bought by an even larger commercial truck manufacturer. But whether you are… Continue Reading
The Five Biggest Challenges To Doing Business In China
Posted in China BusinessSaw a link today on our China Law Blog Group on Linkedin (which you really should join if you have not yet done so — 7,000+ members and we keep it entirely spam-free!) to a talk by Kent Kedl, entitled, The Five Biggest Challenges to Doing Business in China. Kent is the Managing Director, Greater China and… Continue Reading
Doing Business In China Safely. The Due Diligence Basics.
Posted in China BusinessThe below comes from an article I wrote a couple years ago for a manufacturing magazine. I am reprising it today after having just communicated with a company that could sorely have stood to have read it. The point here is that it is possible to do business in China safely, simply by following some… Continue Reading
Europe’s Losses As China’s Gains?
Posted in China BusinessI would guess that 95% percent of my law firm’s China law work comes from North American (United States and Canadian) businesses, with the other five percent coming from mostly Latin America and Europe. But in the last six months, we have seen both a marked increase in companies from Spain and Italy contacting us… Continue Reading
Cause What Happens In China Doesn’t Stay In China.
Posted in China BusinessMore than seven years ago (that has to be the blogosphere equivalent of an eternity, right?), in a post entitled, Is China Going Green? we wrote admiringly about a big company that had one high environmental standard for the entire world: We are aware of a large Fortune 500 retail company that is opening units in China… Continue Reading
An Entrepreneur’s Bone-Chilling Story Of China Business And Betrayal Writ Not So Large.
Posted in China BusinessI started the Inc. Magazine story, “Betrayed in China: One Entrepreneur’s Hard Journey East,” with much anticipation. The writer of the story had interviewed me a bit regarding the story (and I show up in the sidebar at the end) so I knew him to be a really sharp guy with an penchant for accuracy and… Continue Reading
Doing Business In China 101. The Extreme Basics.
Posted in China BusinessThe Wall Street Journal’s Venture Capital Dispatch recently had an article setting out China business basics (h/t to Silk Road International). The article is entitled, “The Do’s & Don’ts of Business in China” and though it is, well, rather basic, it is right on point. It starts out talking of the opportunities in China, but… Continue Reading
Doing Business In China. Speed Kills.
Posted in Recommended ReadingTime – He’s waiting in the wings He speaks of senseless things His script is you and me boys. David Bowie, Time Just read a really good/really interesting blog post on Learning Chinese Business, entitled, “Closing Deals in China: A Study in Relativity.” The post is written by Justin Shuttleworth, who is described as having “lived… Continue Reading
A Webinar For Companies/Inside Counsel Doing Business With China. February 20, 2013.
Posted in EventsOn February 20 at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, I will be co-presenting a China law webinar, along with Andrea Charters, Vice President and Associate General Counsel of Rosetta Stone Inc. LexisNexis is sponsorig this webinar and, incredibly enough, it is entirely free. We will be gearing our presentations towards in house counsel and together we will be addressing the… Continue Reading
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