为法律体系不健全的国家起草合同
您的国际合同是否注定失败？随着供应链多元化发展，企业愈发需要在法律体系难以预测的国家开展业务。本文阐述如何为合同执行力薄弱的国家制定强有力的合同。国际合同三大常见误区过度依赖仲裁：在中立国进行仲裁往往无法提供...
起诉中国制造商因产品质量问题
我们的国际诉讼律师早就在应对企业就中国产品质量问题来函时制定了模板邮件。以下是针对美国企业就中国产品质量问题来函时使用的模板——尤其当对方提供的合同条款存在严重缺陷时。多数情况下
起诉中国公司承担产品责任
近几年来，我所在律师事务所的国际争议解决团队（我亦是其中一员）处理的案件数量激增，这些案件涉及个人、公司及律师因中国制造的产品造成人员伤害而起诉中国企业。提交至本所的案件通常涉及以下情形之一：
Force Majeure in the Time of Coronavirus
Way back in the pre-coronavirus days — October 30-2019 — in Do Not Let Force Majeure be a Major Force In Your China Contract, we did a post warning of force majeure provisions in contracts with Chinese companies. That post began with the following warning/joke; Pull out and look at your contract with your Chinese
Illegal Transshipping/False Country of Origin — Help Us Help You Get Rich
Earlier this year, “Univar USA Inc. paid U.S. $62.5 Million to Resolve Allegations that it Evaded $36 Million in Antidumping Duties on Imported Chinese Saccharin.” My law firm profited handsomely from this case because we brought it to the government’s attention and then assisted on it. The United States Department of Justice describes this case
好合同是关键，腐败见鬼去吧
前几天收到某家规模不小的公司发来的邮件，询问与泰国、台湾、印尼和马来西亚等国企业签订制造合约的优势。邮件内容大致如下（我用"大致"是因为已做修改，确保无人能识别出具体来源）：
China’s Intellectual Property Courts: A Procedural Overview
— Protecting Innovation in an Innovative Way: What are China’s IP Courts? After decades of engagement between US and Chinese legal experts on reforming IP protection in mainland China, Chinese IP courts were first pioneered in 2014 in Beijing, Shanghai, and Guangzhou (see the National People’s Congress (NPC) Decision of Establishing Intellectual Property Courts in
The Huawei Indictments are the New Normal
1. The Huawei Indictments On January 28, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed two indictments against Huawei. The first indictment concerns ongoing claims against Huawei and its CFO, Meng Wanzhou, for allegedly violating U.S. sanctions against Iran. The second and more interesting indictment concerns alleged trade secret thefts by Huawei’s U.S. subsidiary under the direction