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17/08/2023
Chinese Central Government Further Promotes Foreign Investments
On 13 August 2023, the State Council of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) released its Opinions on Further Optimizing Foreign Investment Environment and Reinforcing the Efforts to Attract...
21/04/2022
Do Chinese subsidiaries of EU shareholders and EU nationals in China have...
Recently the EU imposed additional sanctions on Russia and Russian companies and individuals. For foreign invested enterprises with EU shareholders and EU nationals in China, the questions arises whether...
21/03/2022
SPC Issues Judicial Interpretation on Several Issues Concerning the Application...
On 24 February 2022, the Supreme People's Court (“SPC”) of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC”) promulgated the In­ter­pret­a­tion on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the General...
04/01/2022
New Amendments to the PRC Civil Procedure Law
On 24 December 2021, the 32nd session of the 13th Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (“NPC”) of the People's Republic of China ("PRC") approved amendments to the PRC Civil Procedure...
27/09/2021
New Draft for Modernising China’s Arbitration Law – Signal for In­ter­na­tion­al­isa­tion...
BackgroundThe current Arbitration Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “Arbitration Law)” was promulgated in 1994. Except for rather cosmetic amendments made in 2009 and 2017, it has been...
18/12/2020
SPC Issues Judicial Interpretation of Evidence in Civil Intellectual Property...
On 9 November 2020, the Judicial Committee of the PRC Supreme People’s Court adopted the Several Provisions of the Supreme People’s Court on Evidence for Civil Lawsuits Involving Intellectual Property...
03/12/2020
New judicial interpretation enables property preservation in China before...
On 26 November 2020, the Supreme People’s Court issued the Supplementary Arrangement Concerning Mutual Enforcement of Arbitral Awards between the Mainland and the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region...
30/11/2020
PRC Supreme People’s Court Issues Draft of Interpretations Applicable to...
On 9 November 2020, the PRC Supreme People's Court ("SPC") promulgated the Interpretations Applicable to Security-related Parts of the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (Draft for Comment)...
13/08/2020
Overview on Key Issues of the Tort Liability Part of China’s First Civil...
The People’s Republic of China’s (“PRC”) first combined codification of the civil law ever, i.e. the PRC Civil Code (“PRC Civil Code”) which was adopted on 28 May 2020 and which will enter...
24/06/2020
Overview on Key Issues of the Contract Part of China’s First Civil Code
The People’s Republic of China’s (“PRC”) first combined codification of the civil law ever, i.e. the PRC Civil Code (“PRC Civil Code”), was adopted on 28 May 2020 and consists of 7 Parts and...
16/06/2020
Overview on the Stipulations on Property Rights in China’s First Civil...
The Civil Code of the People’s Republic of China (“PRC Civil Code”) which was adopted on 28 May 2020 and will take effect on 1 January 2021 consists of 7 parts and supplementary provisions at the...
08/06/2020
National People's Congress Adopts China’s First Civil Code
On 28 May 2020, the long-awaited Civil Code of the People's Republic of China (“PRC Civil Code”), which is the People’s Republic of China’s (“PRC”) first combined codification of the civil...