The new Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) was passed and published on March 15, 2019 and will take effect on January 1st, 2020. According to the FIL and its… View Article
The Chinese government has announced that China’s social credit system will be effective for individuals and companies by the end of 2020. The final implementation phase is currently ongoing, and… View Article
After having implemented measures towards age control and randomized in-app purchases (known as “loot boxes”) in 2018, online games operators (“Operators”) are submitted to new obligations to further prevent addiction… View Article
A long-awaited technical granularity for network operators PRC regulators display a recurring habit in their legal creative process: pointing a direction first, defining technical measures later. The same habit is… View Article
As anticipated, enforcement of cyber security law by the Chinese authorities has begun. TL Group (TekID & LEAF, our alliance between Tech and legal experts) has recently been contacted by… View Article
The MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) has recently announced that organizations falling under its scope have until the 10th of July 2019 to perform and submit to the authorities their self-assessment of their implementation of the… View Article
Children merit a particular attention with regard to their personal data, as it has been clearly stated in prominent jurisdictions by the EU regulator (EU GDPR, namely Recital 38), the… View Article
The new China Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) was passed and published on March 15, 2019 and will take into effect on January 1, 2020. The FIL is composed of six… View Article
New regulation on blockchain in China: Between structuring a welcoming environment and creating entry barriers Issued on 10 January 2019 and entered in force 15 February 2019, the “Provisions on… View Article
E-commerce in China On 31 August 2018, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress passed Electronic Commerce Law of the People’s Republic of China (hereinafter the ‘E-commerce Law’),… View Article
At the stage of seed financing, entrepreneurs have the choice to use different types of documents to raise funds: equity, convertible debt and convertible equity. In a priced equity round,… View Article
Trademark Protection in China 19 February 2019 A new classification for trademark application came into effect The China National Trademark Office has issued a notice to implement the 2019 version of the 11th Edition of the… View Article
Effective since 1st of June, 2017, Cybersecurity Law (“CSL”) of the People’s Republic of China (“China”) places itself as an overarching regulatory framework to cover all cybersecurity matters from network… View Article
In line with the intention of the PRC authorities to promote the new belt and silk road, the pace of Chinese investments outside of China (a.k.a outbound investments) keeps growing…. View Article