By Dorothy Murray, Natalie Quinlivan,, James McKenzie, Valentine Kerboull

Q2 2019: missed the key litigation news of the last quarter? Fear not as all you need to know is here, from jurisdiction to service, as massive class actions and parental liability suits stand pending in the English Courts, UWOs turn out to have multiple use cases and arbitration awards continue to be hard to challenge.




On 30 June 2019, the National Development and Reform Commission (“NDRC”) and the Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) jointly issued the Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for Foreign Investment Access (2019 Edition) (“2019 Negative List”), the Special Administrative Measures (Negative List) for Foreign Investment Access in Pilot Free Trade Zones (2019 Edition) (“2019 FTZ Negative List”) and the Catalogue of Encouraged Industries for Foreign Investment (2019 Edition) (“2019 Encouraged Catalogue”) for the purposes of further promoting the reform and opening-up of the service industry, relaxing the restrictions on the access to the mining, agricultural and manufacturing industries, and continuing to facilitate Free Trade Zones’ role of the opening-up test field . These new policies will take effect on and from 30 July 2019. 
2019年,美国《反海外腐败法》(FCPA) 在合规和几宗重大执法案件方面取得了实质性进展。2018年末,在认定涉嫌腐败的个人时,美国司法部放宽了企业“全面享有或概不享有”合作从宽待遇的要求,但新政策将如何实施仍有待观察。