Greenfield Investment In China

A FICLS is a company limited by shares with a share capital divided into a specific number of shares of certain nominal value. In general, investors choose FICLS for the... View Article

Since January 1, 2020, the Foreign Investment Law (the “FIL”) has repealed the relevant laws on Wholly Foreign-Owned Enterprise(WFOE), Equity Joint Venture(EJV) and Cooperative Joint Venture(CJV), and FIEs’ organizational form,... View Article

Foreign investors can set up holding companies in China to hold their investments in FIEs and to provide services to their subsidiaries. Required qualifications To set up a holding company,... View Article

Regional headquarters may be set up to provide support to group companies within the region. The purpose of regional headquarters is to attract multinational corporations to set up regional or... View Article

A foreign-invested partnership may be a general or a limited liability partnership with at least one foreign partner. Characteristics A foreign-invested partnership is established by two or more foreign entities... View Article

Representative offices are set up in China to represent foreign companies and their affiliates, but a representative office itself is not a company. Characteristics of Representative Offices Representative offices are... View Article

As the legal and corporate environments in Hong Kong have allowed this Special Administrative Region to be more flexible than Mainland China, a foreign entity may use Hong Kong as... View Article