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Steve Dickinson writes on popular fallacies about China's legal system.

Article by Dan Harris and Rebecca Carlson, Harris Moure PLLC Introduction The rapid increase in business transactions between Chinese and American companies has been matched by a concomitant rise in legal disputes. Attorneys who have dealt with such litigation recognize a pervasive impediment to...

By: Steve Dickinson Starbucks Corporation has been in a long running dispute with coffee shops in Shanghai and Qingdao over the use of the Starbucks trademark in China. Starbucks has prevailed in both actions. On November 16, 2005, the Qingdao court ruled in favor of Starbucks and it recently...

Dan Harris writes on the four biggest legal issues facing foreign marketers in China.

Practical China Tax and Financial Strategies: When Ranking Creditors — China Comes In Dead Last By Dan Harris (Harris & Moure, PLLC, Seattle, Washington) I had a long and arduous meeting recently with a long term client. The client had called me to discuss its difficulties in getting paid and...

Steve Dickinson on what you need to know to protect yourself in a Chinese joint venture.

Steve Dickinson discusses China's new M&A law.

Attorneys are all about money, right? We're the ones who cue our families for photographs with, "Everybody smile and say, 'Fees!'" Go ahead. Insert your own joke here. We can take it. But despite the jokes and our reputation, most of us are businessmen, too. We understand the need to control costs...

Many small and medium sized companies that engage in OEM manufacturing/ outsourcing in China fail to take the steps necessary to protect themselves. When problems arise, they can do little or nothing to protect themselves because they have no legal basis for protection. The fact is that outsourcing...