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Dan Harris Testimony Before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission was created by the United States Congress in October 2000 with the legislative mandate to monitor, investigate, and submit to Congress an annual report on the national security implications of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and the People’s Republic of China, and to provide recommendations, where appropriate, to Congress for legislative and administrative action. Harris Bricken partner Dan Harris was asked to testify…
Global Law and Business Podcast – Kelly Sullivan (Elite Athletics Coaching)
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At Harris Bricken, we keep close tabs on what is happening around the world, and we know that our friends and clients do, as well. We are happy to provide this podcast series: Global Law and Business, hosted by international attorneys Fred Rocafort and Jonathan Bench, where we look at the world by talking with business…
FREE Webinar – Protecting Your IP and Designs When Sourcing
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Learn insider tips on how to protect your IP and designs when manufacturing overseas.
Join Harris Bricken attorney Dan Harris and Rishabh Dheer, a lawyer based in New Delhi, for a FREE webinar on Thursday, September 16th at 7pm PDT/Friday, September 17th 10am IST, on international IP and design protection.
Topics to be discussed include:
How to conduct due diligence on your foreign product suppliers
How to structure the perfect manufacturing…
How to Buy a China Business
Clients often ask us to review a target company’s China operations and provide a due diligence memo to help them assess where the target company is most risky and how to proceed if they want to continue the M&A deal. Sometimes this means our client intends on buying a China entity directly, and other times it means acquiring an entity in another jurisdiction that has a wholly-owned Chinese entity or Chinese operations through a representative…
Vice President Harris’s Asia Trip Signaled Renewed U.S. Focus on Foreign and Trade Relations
Two weeks ago, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris visited Singapore and Vietnam, signaling a renewed focus by the United States on foreign relations, as well as support for U.S. businesses operating in the Asia-Pacific region. Vice President Harris’s trip followed a meeting between U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) earlier in August, and a visit by U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin to Singapore, Vietnam…
China’s Repression Goes Overseas
According to The Globe and Mail, a Canadian hotel chain owned by Jimmy Lai‘s family has been “cited in a recent court case in Hong Kong, its parent company named as part of an alleged collusion between the defendants and foreign forces to ‘endanger national security.’” Prosecutors in Hong Kong are claiming that a bank account belonging to the hotel company was used to pay for “advertisements in major newspapers around the world…
Global Law and Business Podcast – Zoe Lee (Cannabis in Taiwan)
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At Harris Bricken, we keep close tabs on what is happening around the world, and we know that our friends and clients do, as well. We are happy to provide this podcast series: Global Law and Business, hosted by international attorneys Fred Rocafort and Jonathan Bench, where we look at the world by talking with business…
Why Third Party Hiring Agencies and PEOs Seldom Work for China
One of our China lawyers got an email that cited to a super old post we did on using third party hiring agencies in China. The writer then went on to essentially excoriate us for getting it wrong on China third party hiring. The email (modified a bit to protect the guilty) was as follows:
First of all congratulations for your blog, there is some great content on it. However I am very skeptical about…
China’s Cultural Revolution 2.0
For years now, we have been writing about how the CCP is becoming increasingly authoritarian and with that, increasingly less tolerant of foreigners and foreign businesses. When we first started writing these things, the ratio of negative to positive emails and comments was roughly 2 to 1. Now, the ratio of negative to positive emails and comments has completely flipped, as more and more companies are seeing what is happening and looking for an exit…