In recent years, with the development and maturity of emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and big data, China has ushered in an upsurge of high-tech entrepreneurship.  With the timely launch of the Science and Technology Innovation Board, domestic high-tech start-ups have become the most popular investment targets in the capital market.  Since intellectual property (“IP”) rights are the core value of high-tech start-ups and the high risk of investment, it has become the most concerned issue for investors before making investment decisions.  Therefore, more and more investors choose to entrust intermediary agencies to conduct specific due diligence on the target company’s IP rights before making investment decisions to understand the target company’s IP rights and provide extremely important information support for investment decisions.
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作者:Ian Hargreaves  Robert Bolgar-Smith  金杜律师事务所伦敦办公室

hargreaves_i多个司法管辖区经营的公司长期面临遵守各国监管制度的重担,这些监管制度差异巨大、日新月异。然而监管机构还一直在扩大监管内容和管辖范围。

英国《2010年反贿赂法》和美国《1977年反海外腐败法》等法规在领土范围之外也广泛适用,因此,涉足英美的外国公司可能面临巨额罚款,其雇员和董事也可能面临刑事处罚。

监管制度适用范围的扩大带来了更为透明的合规文化。我们发现在交易工作的尽职调查阶段,对于反贿赂和合规要求(以下简称“反贿赂和合规尽职调查”)的重视度大幅上升。

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作者:尤杨、蔺楷毅 金杜律师事务所公司组

本文分两部分刊登, 2011年9月5日金杜法律博客(Chinalawinsight)刊登的了本文的第一部分。文章第二部分将继续对《房地产信托产品的风险概要》进行解读。

二、各类房地产信托产品的固有风险

尽管房地产信托产品种类繁多,但是各类信托产品都有其固有风险,这些风险与该类信托产品的特性紧密结合,根植于该类信托产品之中。例如:

1、以特定资产收益权为投资对象的信托计划

这类信托常与结构化信托相结合,典型的结构化特定资产收益权信托的模型是:信托公司与交易对手达成协议后,信托公司向公众募集资金并赋予其优先级受益权,并以募集来的资金收购项目公司的特定房地产项目的收益权。同时,项目公司的母公司或实际控制人将项目公司的股权转让与信托公司,并获得次级受益权,借此将房地产开发商的利益与优先级受益权人的利益进行绑定。在信托计划到期后,信托公司首先向优先级受益人分配信托利益,之后再向次级受益人分配剩余信托利益。Continue Reading 房地产信托产品的风险概要(2)

By Mark Schaub, Partner, Corporate, King & Wood Shanghai

Every multinational company needs a China strategy. The country’s resilient economic
performance during the global downturn has made it even more attractive to some overseas
investors, but how should such companies arrive at a realistic appraisal of the potential
risks and opportunities of a specific deal?Continue Reading Due diligence: deal killer or deal saver?

Wang Rui, Partner, International Trade

The Chinese legislature created a hybrid from the different approaches adopted by civil and common law jurisdictions through the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China (the “Copyright Law”) and the Regulations on the Implementation of the Copyright Law of the People’s Republic of China (the“Implementation Regulations”), and produced the twin concepts of “legal entity work” and “occupational work” for assigning rights to works made in the course of an employment relationship. For example, a book written by a group of employees organized by an entertainment company for celebrating the company’s anniversary would likely be considered “legal entity work”, but a piece of music composed by a composer employee (not for specific purposes) is “occupational work”, because in the former case, supervision of the company would be involved but the latter case it would not.
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