Chinese distributors can help foreign companies reach customers without setting up a business in China. The wrong agreement can leave a supplier locked into years of poor sales, trademark disputes, or regulatory problems. Here are ten issues we address before a client signs.
When a foreign supplier, customer, or business partner breaches a contract, where should you sue, and is a lawsuit worth the cost? This guide explains how to assess an international business dispute, preserve evidence, choose between litigation and arbitration, secure assets, and collect if you win.
Selling products in China can be profitable, but choosing the wrong distributor, failing to register your trademarks, or signing a poorly drafted agreement can be costly. Drawing on decades of experience and real client matters, our China lawyers explain how foreign companies can enter the Chinese market, protect their intellectual property, navigate import regulations, negotiate enforceable distribution agreements, and avoid common mistakes.
Businesses often spend thousands protecting intellectual property they barely need while leaving their most valuable assets exposed. Drawing on decades of international legal experience and real client cases, we explain which IP legal services are worth buying, which are not, how to choose the right lawyer, and how to avoid expensive mistakes
Received an email warning that someone in China is registering your company name as a domain or trademark? Many are scams, but some trademark warnings involve genuine applications and deadlines. Learn how to check the claims, recognize misleading solicitations, and decide whether your business needs protection.
Moving manufacturing from China to Mexico offers real advantages, but getting it right takes careful planning. This guide covers tariffs and USMCA rules, manufacturing costs, Mexican labor laws, shelter companies, IP protection, and how to leave China without putting your business at risk.
Protecting IP in China works best before your manufacturer has your designs, molds, brand, or technology. This guide answers the China IP questions foreign companies ask us most often, from NNN Agreements and manufacturing contracts to trademarks, molds, design patents, distributors, employees, and what to do after something has already gone wrong.
AI is changing how clients approach lawyers. Increasingly, they arrive with a detailed legal plan already in hand. The problem is that even accurate AI-generated advice can be wrong for the business asking the question. Good legal advice starts by asking why.
How to Sue a Chinese Company. Choosing between litigating or arbitrating in your home country or litigating or arbitrating in China. This article arms you with the information you need to decide whether and how to sue a Chinese Company and it will help you with your litigation and arbitration strategies if you sue in a Chinese or a foreign court or if you pursue arbitration in China or outside China.
AI can produce a polished China contract while leaving its most important and complicated terms blank. Governing law, forum, language, service, and enforcement decide whether a company can stop a Chinese factory, recover its tooling, or reach assets after the deal goes bad.
