China’s International Business Transactions and Laws: Key tools for China (includes FREE one year access of ONLINE version)

Name: China’s International Business Transactions and Laws: Key tools for China
Brand: Wolters Kluwer (HK) (formerly CCH)
SKU: 9789881395573
Price: 1047.60 HKD
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Author: Danny McFadden; Derrick Wilde
ISBN: 9789881395573

Edited by Danny McFadden · Derrick Wilde

Wolters Kluwer (HK) (formerly CCH) February 2017

Specifications

ISBN-13: 9789881395573
Publisher: Wolters Kluwer (HK) (formerly CCH)
Publication: February 2017
Format: Paperback + eBook , 640 pages
Jurisdiction: Hong Kong ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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Written by a group of foremost experts on Chinese business and law, this timely book provides valuable insights on foreign investment into China including the opportunities created by the exciting new One Belt and One Road initiative. It illustrates the complexities and challenges associated with trading, national laws and policies whilst also providing compelling glimpses into the reality of implementing successful investment projects in this dynamic market.

The greatest strength of this book is the ability to address complex issues in an easily understandable way and with direct relevance to the everyday experience of business people and corporate legal consultants. Each chapter covers important strategic issues to consider before entering the China market; options for setting up in China; negotiation and cultural advice; IP protection; mergers and acquisitions; tax and economic factors; family and corporate topics and ways to resolve any potential problems or disputes effectively. This book also includes graphic charts and diagrams that consolidate this valuable information.

China’s International Business Transactions and Laws: Key tools for China is a practical and easy-to-understand guide for businesses and professionals who are assessing the foreign investment opportunities available in China. The book covers a range of topics from Chinese culture to IP protection and has a chapter dedicated to President Xi’s One Belt One Road initiative.

Readers will gain a good understanding of China’s legal system, finance and taxation systems, family and labour laws, and the Chinese concept of ‘guanxi’.The book features detailed charts, diagrams and important economic data which enables the reader to have a real view of how China has progressed during the past three decades.

Practical: The contributing authors share their practical experience in matters from a legal perspective;
Easy to read: One-stop guide written in easily digestible English; and
Comprehensive: The book covers a range of legal topics as well as the importance of Chinese culture, which is important for foreigners looking to do business in China.

Chapter 1 – Negotiation with Chinese
Chapter 2 – One Belt One Road
Chapter 3 – Investment Factors: Legal Trend of Foreign Investment in China
Chapter 4 – Recent Economic Developments
Chapter 5 – Chinese Legal System
Chapter 6 – Taxation and Investment in China
Chapter 7 – Labour Law for Foreign Investment Enterprises in China
Chapter 8 – Securities Law
Chapter 9 – Succession Law
Chapter 10 – Family Law and People’s Mediation
Chapter 11 – Private International Law in China
Chapter 12 – Protection of Intellectual Property in China
Chapter 13 – Mediation in China
Chapter 14 – Arbitration in China (Mainland) and the enforcement of Arbitration Awards

About the Author

Danny McFadden is dually qualified as a lawyer both in Australia and the UK. He has been involved in negotiation, conflict resolution training, mediation and international business for over 20 years.

Danny speaks Mandarin Chinese fluently and mediates regularly in the commercial, employment, construction, family, succession, and banking, insurance, and property sectors with a particular expertise in cross-cultural disputes. He has provided training to the UN, ADB, IHG, World Bank and MTR. He joined the Centre for Effective Dispute Resolution (CEDR) as a Director in 2004 and established a CEDR office in Hong Kong in 2011. Since 2010 he has also acted as Regional Mediator Asia Pacific for the World Bank Group.

An author of many articles on ADR and negotiation; in 2013 his book “Mediation in Greater China” was published and he co-edited “Mediation in Singapore: A practical guide” a publication launched by the Chief Justice of Singapore in March 2015. In 2009 he was appointed

Director of Mediation at the United Nations in New York having assisted with the establishment of the United Nations Ombudsman’s new Mediation Division.

Danny has worked as a trainer in over 30 countries and taught at Singapore Management University and Kobe University, Japan. He has provided consultancy to the legislatures of Hong Kong, China and Vietnam.

He is currently a Member of the Hong Kong Government’s Steering Committee on Mediation, Vice Chairman of HKMAAL and on many mediator panels including the Singapore International Mediation Centre (SIMC) and CCPIT Mediation Centre Beijing.

Derrick Wilde, is a Barrister of the High Court of Australia, (J.D. Harvard Law School), specialising in the facilitation of international trade and investment, and has been active internationally working in various jurisdictions including China, Africa, Thailand, Canada, United States, Peru, Russia.

He co-authored South Africa and the Rule of Law – Report of the International Commission of Jurists (Geneva) on the enforcement of apartheid as a breach of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

He acted as a facilitator on behalf of the British (Commonwealth Development Corporation), French and East and West Cameroon Governments negotiating the unification of the East and West Cameroon.

Derrick has acted as advisor to many governments, he prepared a report on Investment in South and East Asia: a comparative study of law and taxation pertaining to investment in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore and Pakistan for the Committee for Economic Development of Australia and provided memorandum to AUSTRAC (Australian Transaction Reports and Analysis Centre) on international tax evasion.

He has edited International Transactions: Trade and Investment, Law and Finance and China’s International Transactions: Trade and Investment and been a contributor to international law journals on such matters as the Promotion of Industrial Investment in Thailand, the Constitution of Fiji, the Treaty between Australia and Indonesia on the zone of cooperation (Timor Gap). In a notable first in Russian and Ukrainian legal history he brought an international class action on behalf of the dependent families of the victims of the Moscow-Spitzbergen air disaster.

Reviews

“We believe that as China moves forward with its exciting New Silk Road – One Belt One Road project this book is essential reading for academics, awyers, students and business people”

-- Reviewed by CIETAC Hong Kong Arbitration Centre, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu

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