Crafting Contract Damages in China: Experience, Art, and Prudence As I was going through my overflowing email inbox last weekend, three emails about contract damages really jumped out at me. But before I dive into those emails, I will first seek to demystify the concept of contract damages and explain why it’s so important for
International contract writing is complex. A good contract will ensure that your foreign manufacturer meets your requirements and protect your company when things go wrong. This post can help you understand what goes into the drafting of an effective international manufacturing agreement. International Manufacturing Agreements Our international manufacturing lawyers use a fairly standard initial questionnaire when
The below post is by Renaud Anjoran, CEO of Sofeast, a leading Asia-focused quality assurance, product engineering, and supply chain management solutions company. Our law firm’s international manufacturing lawyers have worked with Renaud on countless Asian sourcing and manufacturing transactions over the last fifteen or so years. Most China commentators have been focusing on the
Contents of this Article: 1. Legal Structure 2. Local Partner 3. Choosing the Right Deal Structure 4. Protect Your School’s Intellectual Property Demand for English-based and Western-style education is still running high in many countries around the world. An ever-increasing number of wealthy locals want to prepare their children to attend elite universities abroad and
Not so long after the fall of the Soviet Union, I, along with others in my law firm, had to spend considerable amounts of time in fairly remote places in Russia — places like Vladivostok, Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Things were very uncertain in that part of Russia back then, and we developed certain rules to
When our China lawyers are tasked with drafting a China NNN Agreement, they start by sending the client a tailored questionnaire. Then once they have the answers they draft the NNN Agreement in English (for the client) and in Chinese (the official version). Most of the time, our clients at that point take the NNN
China employers must have written employment contracts with each of their full-time employees. Not having a written employment contract exposes employers to penalties (payable to their employees), administrative fines and the risk of being deemed to have entered an open-term employment contract with the employees lacking the written contract. Most companies now understand this, but
This is Part 3 in a long-running series by Scott Holbrook and Adam-Paul Smolak on how the United States and the rest of the world can take back much of the manufacturing they sent to China and thereby bring high-level manufacturing jobs to the United States and to allied countries. Go here for Part 1,
Our China lawyers have gone through many China downturns in the last twenty years, but none to match the current one. China’s relations with the rest of the world are in a free-fall and China’s economy is hurting. Whenever either of these things are true, China steps up its tax collection and compliance enforcement against
The U.S. government recently announced additional political sanctions on China concerning human rights violations in Xinjiang. The Chinese government’s treatment of Uyghurs and other ethnic minorities in Xinjiang has attracted the attention of human rights organizations and democratic governments over the last few years. Accusations include arbitrary detention in concentration camps, forced labor, and propagandist
