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A guide to the Practical Law China service.

About Practical Law China

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About Practical Law China

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A guide to the Practical Law China service.

About Practical Law China

Our Chinese law know-how service provides up-to-date, in depth, practitioner-focused guidance on doing business in China (PRC). Practical Law China resources are organised into practical topic collections to help you carry out and advise on common transactions.
Our team of China specialists work with China experts at leading law firms to create and maintain our resources. If you are interested in contributing to Practical Law China or wish to be notified about China related developments please contact us via the Ask a question function.

Resources

Practical Law China provides:
  • Legal updates alerting you to developments in law, regulation and practice, as they happen. You can receive these by email and RSS or view online. See Legal Updates: China.
  • Practice notes with clear and up-to-date explanations of law and practice. We consult primary sources, practitioners and leading texts, distilling the principles so you can advise with confidence. See Practice Notes: China.
  • Standard documents with drafting notes, created by our team of experts. Start with a market standard template you know to be up to date. See Standard Documents: China.
  • Standard clauses with drafting notes for use in common commercial agreements. See Standard Clauses: China.
  • Checklists to help you ensure you have everything covered. Quick reference reminders of the law as it applies in practice. See Checklists: China.

Coverage

Practical Law China resources are organised into topic collections.

Antitrust & Competition

This collection covers comprehensive reviews of Chinese antitrust rules on non-merger cases (monopoly agreements and abuses of market dominance) and merger control, as well as public and private antitrust enforcement.

Arbitration

This collection covers the fundamentals of arbitrating and resolving disputes in China-related deals, to help lawyers advise on options for arbitrating China-related contracts, draft, review and comment on arbitration clauses for China, Hong Kong and Singapore, and manage enforcement of awards inside and outside these jurisdictions.

Civil Code Series

This collection helps lawyers navigate through the complex implications of China's Civil Code (with effect from 1 January 2021) on the laws of contract, e-commerce, guarantee and security, intellectual property, privacy and data protection, tort liability and so on.

Commercial

This collection helps lawyers draft, localise and comment on major commercial contracts including supply agreements, confidentiality agreements, agency agreements or distribution agreements where the counterparty is performing its obligations in China. Contracts and key clauses have been drafted to accommodate the choice of Chinese, Hong Kong or English governing law.

Corporate

This collection helps lawyers advise on businesses involving company law matters, such as establishing a China business and common issues of corporate governance. It helps lawyers advise on transactions involving the sale or purchase of Chinese businesses, from full-scale buyouts to minority interests in a joint venture, and also on international M&A transactions and intra-group reorganisations where the target group has Chinese subsidiaries or assets in China.

Data Privacy & Security

This collection tracks the regulatory developments on China's cybersecurity and data privacy protection since the Cybersecurity Law became effective on 1 June 2017, and helps lawyers from all walks of life consistently monitor these developments and verify the latest situation before reaching any significant decision.

Employment & Benefits

This collection helps lawyers understand and address the legal and practical issues that Chinese employment law raises for multinational and large Chinese corporations, covering the whole cycle of hiring and dismissing employees.

Finance & Financial Regulation

This collection helps lawyers understand China-specific foreign exchange and finance-related core issues that may implicate the structure of a complex cross-border transaction, including matters concerning foreign exchange remittance, inbound payment options and the creation of various types of guarantees and other forms of security under Chinese law.

Intellectual Property & Technology

This collection helps lawyers understand the framework for protecting IP in China, to draft, localise or comment on IP and IT contracts to be performed in China, and to enforce IP rights in China.

Litigation & Dispute Resolution

This collection covers litigation and enforcement overviews for China. It also covers the unique anti-bribery and anti-corruption regime, under which many companies are subject not only to China's domestic anti-corruption laws but also the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) and the UK Bribery Act 2010. It provides access to accurate and comprehensive practical materials relating to all aspects of anti-corruption compliance, investigations and due diligence into counterparties and potential M&A targets.

Bilingual Resources

China-related transactions between Chinese and foreign parties usually involve simultaneous work on two language versions.
For practitioners working bilingually, we have bilingual content with the publishing of Chinese-language versions of all standard documents and standard clauses that are maintained by our China service.
Users have a head start to download these standard documents and standard clauses in English and Chinese that present an excellent starting point for bilingual contract drafting.
For a full list of our bilingual resources, see Practical Law China Bilingual Content.

China Current Awareness

Practical Law China produces timely alerts of Chinese legal developments in a wide range of topic areas (see China feed) and also monthly current awareness emails.