In early 2024, a finance employee in the Hong Kong office of engineering firm Arup joined a video conference that appeared to include the company’s chief financial officer and several colleagues. After receiving instructions during the call, the employee authorized
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Your AI-Drafted China Contract Says It Needs a Lawyer. Listen to It.
In the past couple of months, at least three unrelated companies have asked me to review an AI-drafted China contract containing this exact dispute-resolution provision:
Governing Law; Dispute
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act has always been a law much broader than its name suggests.
Sure, the FCPA contains anti-bribery provisions which concern foreign bribery.
Sure, the FCPA’s books and records and internal controls provisions can be implicated in
U.S. companies using AI models developed by companies based in the People’s Republic of China, including DeepSeek, Moonshot AI or MiniMax, should be aware of potential congressional scrutiny in this Congress and the next. Two House committees are conducting a
Forensic Accountants in China Business Litigation: How True Numbers Can Tell the Wrong Story
At a business jury trial, the most dangerous witness may be someone who never attended a meeting or negotiated a contract. They arrive years later,
Every year, the Supreme People’s Procuratorate publishes a number of ‘representative cases’ of malicious intellectual property (IP) litigation, to highlight its efforts to prevent the abusive enforcement of IP rights for improper commercial gain. The cases demonstrate the important role
China’s Supreme People’s Court has issued Opinions on Adjudicating Disputes Involving Artificial Intelligence in Accordance with the Law, setting a national judicial benchmark for AI-related disputes. The 24 provisions cover personality rights, personal information, intellectual property, consumer protection, autonomous vehicles,
On September 9, 2026, the American Pizza Boxes Manufacturers Coalition (comprised of Smurfit Westrock plc and Pratt Industries, Inc.) and the United Steel, Paper and Forestry, Rubber, Manufacturing, Energy, Allied Industrial and Service Workers International Union (USW) (collectively Petitioners) filed
There’s no shortage of news coming out of China’s automotive market. Here, we highlight two articles worth a read and offer our take on why the developments matter for the industry, beginning with how foreign automakers are adapting to a
