China contract review lawyers

Reviewing China Contracts

The contracts Chinese companies provide to their foreign counter-parties are typically terrible because the Chinese company wants them to be terrible.

Think different about China Letters of Intent and Memoranda of Understanding. Please.

China LOI and MOU: Don’t Let Them Happen to You

At least once a month, an American or sometimes a British company will come to one of our China attorneys after having spent considerable time negotiating a complex transaction with a Chinese company. They then show us a Letter of Intent (LOI) or a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that sets out in great detail the

China payment terms

China Payment Terms to Protect YOUR Company

China Payment Terms Negotiating payment terms is one of the trickiest aspects of doing business with Chinese companies. Vague milestones, unpaid invoices, and last-minute changes are common complaints. This post provides key strategies to ensure you get paid in full and on time when working with Chinese companies. Whenever one of our China attorneys is

China employer taxes

Splitting Salaries of Non-Chinese Employees: The Legal and Tax Issues

Our China lawyers are often asked whether it is legal to pay non-Chinese employees from both their China WFOE and from a company outside China (usually their home country parent company). The answer is an easy yes, but the tax issues that arise from doing so are where things get really difficult and why we

International distribution agreements

China Distribution Contracts: The Basics

Our China lawyers have been seeing an increase in work for foreign companies entering into distribution contracts with Chinese distributors, due mostly to China’s rapid growth as a consumer market and to the difficulties and risks foreign companies are seeing when they go into China directly these days. Many of the companies that come to