China: Contracts and Commercial Law

It is still not easy or inexpensive to enforce a U.S. court judgment in China. And it is also far from automatic. But Chinese courts have become more willing to recognize and enforce foreign civil and commercial...

随着人工智能技术迭代加速，AI智能体（AI Agent）正逐步从技术概念进入大众视野，并在办公协同、软件开发、数据分析、企业内部运营等场景广泛应用。企业对AI的应用方式，也从单纯调用大模型转向了建设具备任务规划、工具调用和流程执行能力的AI智能体平台。

大宗循环贸易、融资性贸易纠纷中，物流仓储企业往往是极易被忽视却又高频卷入风险的主体。即便仅承担仓储、单据出具等辅助性角色，一旦交易链条断裂、资金无法兑付，物流企业便极易被拖入虚假贸易的追责漩涡，面临巨额赔偿风险。

Winning a lawsuit against a foreign company is often just the beginning of a much harder battle: actually collecting the money.

Asia saw low levels of M&A activity in Q1 2026, and this was also seen in the buyout space. The level of buyout activity was well below both the value and volume seen in Q1 over the last few years, with values falling below Q1 2024, which was a particularly slow-starting year.

Chinese enterprises investing in South America's Belt and Road Initiative countries face unprecedented legal challenges arising from sovereign intervention, governance conflicts, and geopolitical competition.

China's Supreme People's Court released ten landmark intellectual property cases from 2025, covering trademark distinctiveness, patent infringement in chip technology, trade secret theft, unfair competition through employee poaching and data scraping, and criminal prosecution of counterfeiters. These decisions establish important precedents for balancing innovation incentives with public interests while demonstrating China's commitment to strengthening IP protection in the digital economy.

On 27 February 2026, the China Securities Regulatory Commission (“CSRC”) promulgated the Measures for the Supervision and Administration of Information Disclosure of Private Investment Funds (“Information Disclosure Measures”), which will come into force on 1 September 2026.

2026年3月20日，司法部、中国人民银行、国家金融监督管理总局、中国证监会、国家外汇局联合公布《中华人民共和国金融法（草案）》，向社会公开&