1. China is Cracking Down on Foreigners China has laws and it enforces its laws. And like pretty much every country in the world, China enforces its laws unevenly. By unevenly, I mean it is not uncommon for China to enact a law and then not enforce it for a few years and then all
1. Things are Bad Between China and the West In yesterday's post, Doing Business in China or with China: It’s All Good, I talked about how we would try to move away from focusing so much on declining relations between China and the West and focus more on China's business opportunities, of which there are still many.
According to the Hong Kong Free Press (and a number of other newspapers) The Shanghai government this week "ordered the closure of one of the city’s top maternity hospitals saying it was illegally built on land owned by the armed forces, according to an official notice." According to the article, the hospital, Shanghai International Women’s
The China legal world has been abuzz this last weekend about a Chinese court in Wuhan enforcing a California judgment against a couple of Chinese citizens. On one level this is indeed a huge deal, but on a practical level, this really does not change anything with respect to what you as an American company
Media reports state that online gambling in China soared during the recent World Cup. The punters put their money into online gambling on the World Cup, with revenue at China's government run lottery site increasing by over 80% during this period. The general ban on gambling in China is subject to one exception. The Chinese
China Joint Venture Lessons The China Economic Review recently featured an article by Steve Dickinson [a former China lawyer with our law firm, who retired in 2021] on the Danone-Wahaha dispute, an outgrowth of a presentation he gave at JP Morgan on China joint ventures. The article, titled Danone v. Wahaha: The lessons to be
Financial services for cannabis businesses, including the challenges and regulations around banking due to federal illegality in some countries.
Words, names, symbols, or devices that are used in commerce to identify and distinguish goods or services. Trademark registrations are issued by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and state agencies, though the USPTO restricts access to trademark registrations for cannabis due to its current federal illegality.
Contract provisions where parties agree not to raise the illegal nature of marijuana activity as a defense to enforcement of the contract in judicial proceedings, and likely have little or no practical effect.
Legal doctrine representing courts’ refusal to grant relief or enforce contracts for illegal activity, including for marijuana-related activity or goods.
