How to Sue a Chinese company in a court or via arbitration

How to Sue a Chinese Company

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.

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Sinosure: The Complete Guide for Foreign Buyers

A Sinosure demand letter is not an ordinary collection letter, and the amount it demands is not necessarily the amount you owe. Drawing on the more than 100 Sinosure matters I have handled, this guide explains what Sinosure can do to your China assets, supplier credit, and people, how to respond when a demand arrives, how to settle without paying twice, and how to prevent a claim in the first place.

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When Your Contract Will Not Save You in a Cross-Border Credit Dispute

When Your Contract Will Not Save You in a Cross-Border Credit Dispute A U.S. company recently lost more than $860,000 to a foreign client. It had a signed contract, invoices, and legal remedies. That still was not enough. The contract was not the real problem. The company extended too much unsecured credit, dealt with the

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Can You Subpoena a Chinese Company? What You Need to Know About China Discovery

Can You Subpoena a Chinese Company? What You Need to Know About China Discovery In cross-border litigation involving mainland China-based defendants, U.S. litigation lawyers often mistake the ability to issue a subpoena for the ability to enforce it. A subpoena backed by a U.S. court carries real consequences inside the United States, but it has

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Enforcing U.S. Judgments in China: What Judgment Creditors Need to Know

Enforcing U.S. Judgments in China: What Judgment Creditors Need to Know For years, the standard advice about enforcing U.S. judgments in China was simple: don’t bother. That advice is now outdated. It is still not easy or inexpensive to enforce a U.S. court judgment in China. And it is also far from automatic. But Chinese

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International Litigation: Winning the Lawsuit Is Often the Easy Part

International Litigation: Winning the Lawsuit Is Often the Easy Part Companies often go into international litigation asking the wrong first question: can we win? That matters, of course. But in many cross-border disputes, it is not the most important question. The more important question is whether winning will ever lead to money. Our international dispute

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International Arbitration in Cross-Border Contracts: What Companies Get Wrong

International Arbitration in Cross-Border Contracts: What Companies Get Wrong An industrial pump company signs a supply agreement with an overseas supplier, receives eight million dollars’ worth of defective goods, and does what seems logical: it sues in the supplier’s home court. Five years later, it has spent more on legal fees than the amount in

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