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China Officially Promulgates New Cross-Border Data Transfer Requirements

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The newly promulgated measures increase the threshold of data triggering security assessments and contract requirements while leaving room for Chinese authorities to heavily restrict cross-border data transfers. In...more

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP

No longer in limbo - China’s CAC finalises new regulations regarding cross-border data flows

The much anticipated response to the Consultation initiated by the Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) last September has finally arrived (read our earlier briefing here). Last Friday, the CAC ended months of speculation...more

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China Finalizes Rules to Ease Data Export Compliance Burden

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On March 22, 2024, the Cyberspace Administration of China (“CAC”) promulgated the final version of the Provisions on the Promotion and Regulation of Cross-Border Data Flows (the “Final Provisions”), bringing to conclusion the...more

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Global Finance: Today’s Risks and Rewards in an Evolving Industry

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The global finance industry has been undergoing a significant shift in recent years, with investment patterns showing a slow but steady pivot towards Low Income, Lower Middle Income, and Upper Middle Income nations, as...more

Braumiller Law Group, PLLC

Braumiller Law Group & Braumiller Consulting Group February 2024 newsletter

Last June (2023), in response to a ruling request from Your Special Delivery Services Specialty Logistics (YSDS), Customs and Border Protection (CBP) issued HQ H324098, clarifying what it means to be an “owner or purchaser”...more

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China’s New Negative List for Foreign Direct Investment

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On December 27, 2021, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and the Ministry of Commerce jointly issued the Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for Foreign Investment Access (2021 Edition)...more

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China allows foreign-invested enterprises to make equity investments within China from the capital account: liberalization of the...

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Ever since China began opening up to the outside world, the right of foreign-invested enterprises ("FIEs") to make equity investments within the People's Republic of China (which for these purposes refers to Mainland China...more

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Foreign Arbitral Institutions Allowed to Administer Foreign-Related Arbitrations in Shanghai Lin-Gang Pilot Free Trade Zone in...

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The Shanghai Municipal Bureau of Justice recently released the Administrative Measures for Business Offices Established by Overseas Arbitration Institutions in Lin-Gang Special Area of China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone...more

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Shanghai Allows Foreign Institutions to Administer “Foreign-Related” Arbitrations

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The content first appeared on Global Arbitration Review. Shanghai is to allow foreign arbitral institutions to register in a free trade zone and administer “foreign-related” arbitrations seated in mainland China. Craig...more

Dorsey & Whitney LLP

Update on China’s Recent Liberalization of the Legal Regime for Foreign Investment

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With the ongoing US-China trade tension, what has been easily overlooked is China’s recent liberalization of its legal regime in the areas of foreign investment and foreign investors’ M&A activities in China. This...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

PRC Plans to Allow FTZ-Registered Foreign Arbitral Institutions to Lawfully Administer Arbitrations in Mainland China

On 6 August 2019, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (the “PRC”) issued a plan for the New Lingang Area of the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone (the “FTZ Plan”), which seeks to match standards in the New...more

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China Introduces New Foreign Investment Law, Negative Lists, and Encouraged Industries Catalogue

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What do multinational corporations, private equity funds, and other foreign investors need to know? On March 15, 2019, the National People’s Congress of China approved The People’s Republic of China Foreign Investment Law...more

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China's 2019 Negative Lists

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China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) as expected published three lists on foreign investment on June 30: a revised negative list applicable to the country as a whole (the...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

How a New Law in Mainland China Will Impact Foreign Investment

In less than six months, a new law will take effect in China that will have a major impact on foreign investment. The National Congress of the People’s Republic of China passed the Foreign Investment Law in March, three years...more

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP

Foreign Investment in China: An Introduction

China presents some of the world’s most exciting opportunities, and a unique set of cultural, legal and political challenges. It has a distinct legal regime that in many respects cannot be understood by direct reference to...more

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China Relaxes Some Restrictions on Foreign Investment in China's Pilot Free Trade Zones

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The General Office of China's State Council posted on June 16 the Special Measures on the Administration of Entry by Foreign Investment in Pilot Free Trade Zones (Negative List) (2017 edition) (Guobanfa [2017] No. 51, dated...more

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Recent Developments in the Chinese Regulatory Regime Governing e-Commerce

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The Chinese regulatory regime governing e-commerce has been constantly evolving as domestic and cross-border e-commerce continues its rapid growth. Recently, the regulatory environment has opened up in several ways:...more

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China Adopts New Regulatory Regime for Foreign Invested Enterprises

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Action Item: China reforms its regulatory regime for managing FIEs by replacing existing MOFCOM approval requirements with a filing procedure nationwide. Beginning October 1, 2016, the incorporation of or a major change to an...more

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What’s the big deal about China?

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Well, first of all, China IS big. With nearly 1.5 billion people and an economy whose growth has outpaced that of the U.S. more than three-fold since 2011 according to the World Bank, China has been a ‘hot topic’ for years....more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Liberalization of Policy on E-Commerce from Shanghai Free Trade Zone to All of China: Allows Complete Foreign Ownership in...

On June 19, 2015, China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (“MIIT”) promulgated a new policy, Opinions on Lifting Restrictions on the Foreign Equity Ratio for Online Data Processing and Transaction Processing...more

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New Shanghai Free Trade Zone Policy: WFOEs Now Permitted to Provide E-Commerce Services

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Action Item: The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China has announced that foreign investors may now hold 100 percent of the equity shares in e-commerce companies located in the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

China’s New Policy for Foreign Investment in E-Commerce - Shanghai Free Trade Zone Opens Door for Complete Foreign Ownership in...

Further to the early 2014 policy that relaxed the restrictions on the foreign equity ratio in value-added telecommunications business in the Shanghai Free Trade Zone (“Shanghai FTZ”), on January 15, 2015, the Ministry of...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

China State Council Approves Adjustment of Special Access Management Measures in Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone

Following the big change where registration was replaced by filing for establishment applications of companies excluded in the Negative List, China State Council further approves adjustment of the special access management...more

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China’s (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone: Widening the Outbound Investment Pipeline

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The launch of the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (FTZ) last September attracted a lot of attention both inside and outside of China. Since then, the lack of progress implementing stated goals for the FTZ as a...more

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The Shortened Shanghai Free Trade Zone Negative List: One Small Step for Reform…

Amidst high hopes in the foreign investment community for a streamlined framework regulating inbound investment to the PRC, China’s State Council launched the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (the “SFTZ” or “Zone”) in...more

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