The one thing I know for sure about China is, I will never know China. It’s too big, too old, too diverse, too deep. There’s simply not enough time.
– Anthony Bourdain, On Parts Unknown
First Kate Spade and now Anthony Bourdain. What the
Robert Walsh, sometime Seattle resident and long-time friend of our law firm (we worked on a number of China deals together and we — Dan and Steve — met up with him on our last trip to Myanmar), has spent the last four years in Myanmar, where he operates a vibrant business consultancy.
The Peking Duck blog officially closed today. I am not the sentimental type and to a great extent, everyone knew this day would soon arrive. But yet today is still a sad day.
The Peking Duck was at one time one of the two or three best and
The below post was written by Richard Bistrong, who recently returned from a long China trip where he met with all sorts of companies to assist them in their compliance efforts. Richard is CEO of Front-Line Anti-Bribery LLC and a contributing editor of the FCPA Blog (a truly great blog, BTW). In 2010 he
Chinese companies are seeking out technology wherever and however they can find it and our China lawyers have been writing a slew of China technology licensing agreements of late. Sometimes these deals come to us as China licensing deals, but other times, they come into our law firm as putative joint ventures, but after our
North Korea as a guide to doing business in China. It’s a long story, but let me explain.
The other day I got a call from an old client who used to do business with North Korea. Yes North Korea. Many years ago, this fishing company had explored doing a deal with North Korea, during
Since we took down our blogroll last year, I feel it is more incumbent upon us than ever to highlight other blogs and other sites and other writings we see as being helpful to our readers. Towards that end I emphatically recommend the US-China Trade War Blog.
Though nominally written by a BigLaw firm,
I was interviewed last year by Jason Aquino of Scouts Consulting as part of an ongoing interview series on strategy and innovation in business, sports, and national security. Jason will be releasing this series of interviews in the future, but
This is our 3,645th blog post and, at least as far as I know, I have never pretty much just re-run a previous blog post, wholesale, without any changes. Sure we have “cribbed” from previous posts, but the subsequent posts are more updates
Way back in 2010, we did a post comparing Beijing and Shanghai. That post took the rivalry pretty seriously:
The Beijing-Shanghai rivalry fascinates me. Not because it is so unusual, but because it is so pronounced and because it matters.
Beijing is the seat of government,