By Jiang Junlu Zhang Jingjing King & Wood Mallesons’ Commercial & Regulatory Group

jiang_junluInterregional employment is an increasingly common arrangement in practice. Interregional employment means that the domicile of employer differs from the location where employment contract is performed. The difference is generally caused by the feature of employer’s business. For example, employer is registered in Beijing and does not have any branches in other cities. But employer needs to assign salesmen to work in other cities or directly hire salesmen in these cities for business operation. In this case, employees would be hired by employer registered in Beijing, while their employment contracts are performed in other cities.

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作者：陆慧文 黄璐 金杜律师事务所商务合规部

陆慧文一、 保全证据公证的含义

保全证据公证是指公证机构根据自然人、法人或者其他组织的申请，依法对与申请人权益有关的、有法律意义的证据、行为过程加以提取、收存、固定、描述或者对申请人的取证行为的真实性予以证明的活动。

二、 劳动争议中保全证据公证的必要性

随着劳动争议案件数量的增多，其类型也越来越复杂。而在劳动案件中，由于用人单位承担了较重的举证责任，能否提交充足有效的证据对于用人单位能否赢得案件起到了相当大的作用。然而，由于证据本身的一些特性以及实践中影响取证的各种因素，常常使得证据面临灭失的危险。因此，保全证据公证有时在劳动案件中扮演着十分重要的角色。

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By King & Wood Mallesons

King & Wood Mallesons (KWM) has advised Fenghui Leasing Co. Ltd. as US and PRC counsels on its offering of US$150 million 7.875% guaranteed notes due 2019. It is the first high yield bond issued by a PRC financial leasing company and a landmark transaction for both the issuer, as its debut international bond offering, and for KWM, as the first ever international law firm to act as both US and PRC counsel in a bond issuance.

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作者：金杜律师事务所

金杜律师事务所担任丰汇租赁有限公司（简称“丰汇租赁”）美国法律顾问及中国法律顾问，协助其成功发行金额为1.5亿美元，利率为7.875%于2019年到期的担保债券。该项目是首次由中国融资租赁类公司发行的高收益债券，也是该发行人首次发行的国际债券；金杜亦成为全球第一家在债券发行交易中同时提供美国法及中国法服务的国际律所，具有里程碑意义。

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By Mark McFarlane, Ian Edmonds-Wilson, Kate Jackson-Maynes and Daniel Bragg. King &Wood Mallesons

1. Marketplace lending is…

The practice of connecting consumers and small–medium enterprises (SMEs) wishing to borrow with individuals or institutions wishing to lend. The “marketplace” is facilitated by a financial services provider via an online platform, which aims to deliver a streamlined financing process with low operating costs. Depending on the business model, the platform provider may originate, underwrite, price or service the loans.

2. …more than P2P lending.

P2P lending is a marketplace lending model where the platform matches the borrower with investors without investing in the loan itself. “Marketplace lending” encompasses P2P as well as online lending utilising other funding models that have since arisen such as direct balance sheet origination, whole loan sales and securitisation.

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作者： 姜俊禄 张晶晶 金杜律师事务所商务合规部

jiang_junlu实践中，异地用工的现象越来越普遍。异地用工指用人单位所在地和劳动合同履行地不同，一般是由于用人单位的业务特点导致。例如，用人单位注册在北京，在其他城市没有实体，但是需要向其他城市派驻或在当地招聘销售人员。这种情况下，只能由北京的用人单位雇佣员工，但是员工的劳动合同履行地却在其他城市。

异地用工情况下，社会保险到底在用人单位所在地还是劳动合同履行地缴纳，是用人单位经常遇到的一个实际问题。法律上，这个问题比较容易解决，社会保险应当在用人单位所在地缴纳[1]。

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By Jeffrey Thurnau ( Assistant General Counsel for IP, Gates Corporation, USA) & Mia Qu (Partner, King & Wood Mallesons, Shanghai, PRC)

The intellectual property rights (IPR) protection of China has become a worldwide hot topic. China, as a manufacturing giant, will inevitably become a country with a large number of intellectual property related disputes related to manufacturing in transnational corporations (TNCs). Patent litigation is increasingly common in China. According to recent statistics, the number of intellectual property litigation cases in 2014 is about 133863, among which the number of patent litigation cases is about 10187. The authors of this paper participated in a patent litigation case in China through judgment as the Defendant and directly experienced patent litigation’s procedure and features in China. This paper intends to share with readers the authors’ observations and insights based on their personal experiences and will perhaps serve to address some of the concerns associated with patent litigation in China. This paper also provides some comparisons with United States (“U.S.”) practice. Continue Reading Experience: A Patent Infringement Litigation in China

By Jason Watts and Lauren Beasley. King & Wood Mallesons

watts_jIn recent months there has been increasing regulatory focus on corporate culture, with ASIC prominent in the debate.

We do not consider that it is the role of regulators to enforce corporate culture and there is no “one size fits all” model as to what constitutes a good corporate culture.

Nevertheless we consider that a focus on improvement in corporate culture can be a catalyst to positive business outcomes and therefore should be on the agenda for boardroom discussion. In that sense the ASIC initiative is to be welcomed.

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作者：宁宣凤 尹冉冉 张若寒 卫凌波 金杜律师事务所商务合规部

untitled2untitled016年7月27日，国家发展与改革委员会（“发改委”）发布了三份处罚决定书，对华中药业、山东信谊和常州四药达成垄断协议的行为予以处罚。作为执法机构认定“其他协同行为”的第一案，该案对我们在中国法下分析信息交换行为提供了重要指引。本文从信息交换反垄断规制的角度出发，针对主要司法辖区进行比较法梳理，力图为企业跨国反垄断合规提供思路和建议。

在各国反垄断实务中，竞争者之间交换敏感信息一直是热点话题。一方面，竞争者交换敏感信息可能促成协同行为，严重排除、限制竞争；另一方面，各国就如何认定信息交换促成了协同行为又存在差异。不同司法辖区，甚至同一司法辖区的不同执法、司法机关在法律适用上都可能采取不同态度：有些趋严，交换特定类型的敏感信息会被推定排除、限制竞争，进而违反反垄断法；有些则趋于缓和，交换敏感信息本身只是间接证据，不能直接推定存在协同行为。

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作者:  宁宣凤 尹冉冉 吴涵 赵泱地 金杜律师事务所商务合规部

untitled2untitled016年7月27日，国家发展与改革委员会（“发改委”）发布了三份处罚决定书，对三家药企违反《反垄断法》达成并实施垄断协议的行为进行处罚，合计罚款人民币260余万元。

涉案的三家药企分别为华中药业股份有限公司（“华中”）、山东信谊制药有限公司（“信谊”）及常州四药制药有限公司（“常四”），均为艾司唑仑原料药和片剂的生产及供应商。艾司唑仑具有镇静、催眠和抗焦虑疗效，是国家二类精神药品。国家对二类精神药品原料药的准入和生产实行严格管制，全国获得艾司唑仑原料药生产批文的企业仅有四家，而实际在产的也只有本案中被处罚的三家企业。根据发改委处罚决定，本案的相关产品市场为艾司唑仑原料药市场和艾司唑仑片剂市场。

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