Just got off the phone with a client who asked me to provide it with a “term sheet template” for buying product from a Vietnamese manufacturer. We generally advise our clients reach agreement on “key terms” before we start drafting their Manufacturing Contract. It is not productive for us to start drafting a manufacturing contract
A technology company contacted one of our China lawyers months after having started selling its software into China. This company came to us seeking help in deciding whether to continue selling its software from the United States or to form a China WFOE and start selling through that entity. The first thing we told this
We have written a number of times about the need to register intellectual property in China with the appropriate authorities. And we usually put particular emphasis on registering trademarks in China, because doing so is an easy, obvious, and relatively economical first step in IP protection. But for those selling or manufacturing products in China,
My friend Kent Kedl co-wrote an article for the Moscow Times today, entitled, Why Russia Is Just as Good as China, claiming businesses should be just as interested in Russia as they are in China and that corruption in Russia is no better or worse than corruption in China: For some reason, investors find Russian corruption
To describe employer and employee taxes in China as complicated is an understatement. My law firm usually advices our clients to secure bookkeeping/accounting assistance for this and we do not get much involved with calculating these figures. However, a client of ours for whom we are handling a number of China employment law matters requested
Just updated our research regarding China Representative Office rules relating to employees and note the following. Q. How many foreigners can work for the Rep Office? What is the proper term for referring to these employees? A. A Rep Office may hire no more than four foreign persons, each of whom is called a representative.
In China Payment Fraud, we wrote how it has “become somewhat of a December tradition to write about China payment scams in December because history shows this is the biggest month for those. This year it seems China fraud season has started earlier than usual for those doing business with China and, near as I
One of the most frustrating things about doing business in China is the paper work. I was cc’ed on an email the other day from one of our China company formation lawyers to one of our clients. The client had signed the documents required for a WFOE by ink that looked like the required ink,
Our China company formation lawyers spoke with a software company the other day with fifteen “independent contractors” in China they view as “part of the corporate family.” This company was looking to form a WFOE in China, but they said they were in no rush. The first thing we did was tell them that what
A reader sent me a link to a report on Media Piracy in Emerging Economies. The report, put out by the American Assembly at Columbia University, “is the first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.” It is
