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A February 2015 Morrison & Foerster client alert reported on the issuance of a new draft Foreign Investment Law ('FIL') that, if promulgated, would institute far-reaching changes to the Chinese [...]

More than twelve years after the promulgation in 2003 of the Catalogue of Telecommunications Services (《电信业务分类目录(2003版) 》; the '2003 Catalogue') China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology ('MIIT') finally promulgated [...]

Our September 16, 2014 client alert, 'Brave New World? Recent Challenges Facing Foreign IT Companies in China', discussed efforts by the Chinese government to enforce heightened network security standards, with [...]

Following issuance over the last several months of more general policy statements promising liberalized foreign investment rules applicable to the telecommunications sector within the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone [...]

This year has been a watershed in terms of Canada's enforcement of its Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act ('CFPOA'): In January 2013, a record fine of CAD 10.35 million [...]

This week heralds the official launch of a new structure for foreign investment -- the foreign-invested partnership ('FIP') -- with the long-awaited Administrative Measures on the Establishment of Partnership Enterprises [...]

On July 18, 2008, the Ministry of Commerce ('MOFCOM') and the Ministry of Land and Resources ('MOLAR') jointly promulgated the Measures for the Administration of the Foreign-invested Mineral Exploration (the [...]

China's New Property Right Law The PRC Property Right Law ('Property Law') was promulgated and approved by the National People's Congress ('NPC') on March 16, 2007 and will become effective [...]