Practical legal analysis
Hidden machine-readable instructions in filings and deal documents: PRC law can characterize the misconduct, but every remedy depends on proving a file the recipient has usually already altered.
Read more — The Hidden Sentence in the Petition Was Not Written for the Judge
Factory photos, a business license and a video call cost a supplier nothing. What changes a prepaying buyer's legal position under PRC law is which entity is bound, how much of the price is still unpaid, and whether the deposit is a deposit at all.
Read more — Your Chinese Supplier Will Show You Anything. Ask It to Agree to Something Instead.
A Changsha seller that had moved out, a full prepayment already wired, and an ICC clause in a small contract: why the buyer's breach claim was strong and his recovery was not, and why legal existence is not an operating business.
Credit repair in China is a free, application-based administrative procedure. Court judgments, enforcement listings and tax arrears announcements sit outside it, and the undertaking that carries the whole process is signed by the company, not by its agent.
Overseas compliance failures rarely start with a missing rule. They start with incentives that outrun the compliance function — and China's own bribery law already reaches more of the gap than most programmes assume.
Read more — Your Sales Team Is Going Overseas. Is Your Compliance Programme?
Under PRC law an employer may relieve an employee of his duties pending an internal investigation, but that decision carries no matching right to reduce his pay. The work-stoppage wage rule cannot be borrowed to supply one, and only part of a pay package can lawfully be held back.
Read more — The Suspension Was Fine. The Payroll Instruction Was Not.
Why reporting a fraud under PRC criminal procedure does not make a company a party, a victim, or a recipient of information about the investigation.
Read more — Someone Used Your Company's Name to Commit Fraud. You Are Not the Victim.
Why China's crime of refusing to enforce a court judgment now reaches the debtor's own lawyer — and how a 2024 interpretation makes it easier to prove.
China's new offshore trust individual income tax rules charge the person who funded the property, bears its cost and controls it — not the person named on the trust deed.
Read more — You Gave the Assets Away. China Just Said That Is Not the Test.
A Shanghai notarial case illustrates why an unresolved marital status may outweigh a dying person's clearly expressed wishes, and why formal legal status so often prevails in PRC private law.
Read more — When Legal Status Prevails Over Personal Autonomy Under PRC Law
A few thousand yuan in kickbacks reached a Shenzhen-listed drugmaker three companies upstream. The case shows why liability-shifting clauses in China's CSO agreements do not survive a look-through compliance review.
Here's what China's mandatory tender offer rule actually requires, and why so many buyers of Chinese listed companies stop one-hundredth of a percent short of it.
Read more — He Sold Control of a Listed Company for 1.29 Billion Yuan — At Exactly 29.99%, Not 30%
A Shanghai court revoked a board resolution removing a joint venture's general manager because the meeting notice was too short. Here is how PRC Company Law Article 26 polices board procedure — and why a joint-venture contract, on its own, may not protect you.
Removing a director in China takes a simple majority and no cause. The failed campaign at STAR Market-listed Allgens Medical (688613) shows why the statute is the easy part — and where board fights are actually decided.
Read more — A Daughter Tried to Remove Her 83-Year-Old Mother From the Board. She Failed.
Both parties acknowledged the debt and signed a settlement — yet the court refused judicial confirmation, because the RMB 1 million cash portion lacked contemporaneous evidence. Under PRC law, agreement is not proof.
Death does not transfer control. It removes the only person who could explain the arrangement — and hands the problem to people who have never seen the documents.
Read more — What Happens to Your Chinese Company When Its Actual Controller Dies
For most privately owned PE managers who built their business outside Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, the traditional model is dead. They raised on an IPO exit that no longer exists, and they lack the LP base, the deal flow and the secondary market access that let first-tier institutions simply wait. What remains is a book of distressed positions already being administered — and the only real decision is whether that work is booked as failure or rebuilt as a special-asset management practice.
Read more — Private Equity Fund Risk Resolution and Manager Continuity: A Practical Legal Framework
Part A of a three-part series on acquiring a China data center: why these are deals for scarce, regulated rights rather than real estate, and how the operating license and foreign-investment access decide whether the transaction can happen at all.
Part B of the series: five infrastructure risks a standard document review misses in China data center deals — internet resources (IP/ASN/BGP), carrier agreements, land and fire safety, energy quota and power capacity, and change-of-control in customer contracts.
Part C of the series: the risks that surface in the numbers and the org chart — cybersecurity and data-protection exposure, equipment financing leases, change-of-control in financing documents, and retaining the key operations team after closing.