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Moving with purpose

Winners of Rising Stars 2023 share secrets to their swift success
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The corporate straight and narrow

Hang Dongxia, vice chairman of Juneyao Medical, explores the key issues and classic missteps in achieving good corporate governance
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China tech-savvy legal systems
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A battle of wits

China is emerging as a leader in legal technology as it reforms and modernises judicial framework
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CBLJ China law firms Regional Awards 2023
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China Business Law Awards (Regional Awards) 2023

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Legal Market Report 2023
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Hard knocks

88 law firms provide our annual state of the legal market report for 2022
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Legal AI’d

Sharyn Ch’ang, PwC’s Asia-Pacific NewLaw director, depicts a future where AI integrates with the legal profession
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Smart moves

Senior practitioners offer tips for businesses to tackle trending issues
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The X factor

Amid strategic shifts, general counsel are reviewing law firm relationships and prioritising selection factors
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Broadening your counsel

GCs working across borders discuss the value of peer networking and exchanges
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Power moves

Partners at Chinese and international law firms analyse changes under the new registration-based listing regime as the momentum shifts on going public
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Look before you leap

The GC of a large state-owned enterprise outlines how companies should assess country-specific risks during cross-border investment
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Shaking off the rust

Northeastern China’s legal market eyes new fronts for growth and reflects on how to shake off the rust
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The future is?

Senior in-house counsel and practitioners dissect their real-use arsenals of legaltech including AI
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In-house Insights

Don’t settle, be nimble

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Law imitates art

Where do the legal elite draw inspiration from outside of work?
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In-house Insights

Insights for Chinese companies protecting brands overseas

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ChatGPT role in the legal profession
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ChatGPT and legal

Legal head at a crypto firm discusses how the legal profession should handle its relationship with ChatGPT
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Call to action

Case study: How Junzheng Logistics removed itself from US sanction list
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Best Law Firms in China 2023
Market watch

China Business Law Awards 2023

China Business Law Journal reveals its top performing law firms of 2022
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China's ESG regulatory moves
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Force of nature

With rapidly escalating ESG awareness and evolving policies, China is embracing a robust wave of green investment
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China IP case study: How Mango Excellent Media protects its copyright overseas

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In-house Counsel Awards 2023 revealed

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China IP case study: How BGI Genomics protects its biomedical & life sciences overseas

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China IP case study: How Hisense protects its appliances and electronics overseas

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China IP case study: How Nio protects its electric vehicles overseas

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The threshold of change

Big benefits from progressive IP protection but tech advances bring fresh challenges
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In-house Insights

Safety first

Dajia counsel on new risks in security provision regulation
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Cityscape

Blue ocean tides

With the advantages brought by the Third Circuit Court waning, Jiangsu law firms are seeking new avenues to maintain a market position in line with the province’s economic dominance
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Top client turn-offs
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The hit list

Survey reveals pet peeves of in-house counsel across Asia for law firm services, and the growing importance of legaltech
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In-house Insights

Calculated Risks

Aaron Shao, Abbott’s Greater China legal head, unpacks the role of counsel in the critical task of risk assessment and offers advice and strategies on how to excel in this challenging job
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China in-house counsel sustainability over speed
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Calm resilience

GCs and senior in-house counsel predict trends for the year ahead and share developments in various sectors, regulatory updates and their management strategies
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Market watch

Rising Stars 2023

100 young elite lawyers for China market
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Best-laid plans

The Chinese co-chair of IBA’s antitrust section talks about her ambition to broaden the horizons for the country's lawyers in the competition arena
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On the money

How are top law firms strategising their capital market fee structures?
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China bankruptcy regime updates
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Time for plan B?

Senior bankruptcy practitioners review the current regime and share innovative repayment plans for rescuing distressed companies
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China Deals of the year 2022
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Deals of the year 2022

The most exciting China-related legal transactions and disputes of 2022
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Fees to please: Flexible and innovative fee structure for Hong Kong arbitration

Former justice head explains HK’s new third party funding regime for arbitration
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Taking the plunge
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Taking the plunge

As global uncertainty disrupts the legal workforce, Asian law firms see attrition as young lawyers switch to in-house and other lanes
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Going the distance

Yiru Sun, the new senior partner of Hylands Law Firm, shares unique insights from her years of practice, research results and future plans to continue developing in the capital markets field
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Success stress

Stressful competition behind the hustle of Guangdong’s legal landscape
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The A-List 2022

After thorough editorial survey and research, China Business Law Journal presents the elite lawyers in China’s legal market
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Crisis innovation
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Crisis innovation

China’s judicial system embraces procedural and tech upgrades amid a surge in cross-border disputes
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China arbitration evolution
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Long roots, strong branches

Top arbitration institutions examine the evolution of the sector in China
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Keymasters

General counsel hold the keys to unlocking sound investment opportunities in troubled times
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Surviving the deluge

George W Russell asks legal experts how clients can draw on experience from damage control practice around the globe
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Building compliance culture, Du Jin
In-house Insights

Building compliance culture

Du Jin, general counsel and assistant president at Shenzhen-listed Hytera Communications, offers some insights
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Are you available?

Under China’s new data regulatory framework, how should companies use publicly available personal information in a compliant manner?
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Moving on up

Mariel Dimsey tells us about her new role and plans to enhance the city’s reputation as a leading dispute resolution hub
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Rebuilding the faith, Michael Zhang
In-house Insights

Rebuilding the faith

Compliance chief plots your survival in property sector
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Counting blessings

We reveal revenues and expansion plans of leading law firms in our annual survey
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Eyes forward
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Eyes forward

The leaders of international and domestic firms in China have their eyes firmly on the prizes of the future
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Market watch

China Business Law Awards (Regional Awards) 2022

We reveal the regional winners of China Business Law Awards 2022
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Steering the ESG shift

ACC survey affirms that GCs are taking on a more proactive role in the ESG evolution
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Within the epicentre
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Within the epicentre

China’s legal teams demonstrate indispensable value
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Bright future
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Bright future

Why the new Futures and Derivatives Law is a boost for China towards aligning with international practice?
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Trade route revival

China explores resource investments in Central Asia and the Greater Middle East
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Markets of choice

Chinese companies are finding both challenges and opportunities amid shakeups in capital markets at home and abroad
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In-house Insights

Matching the pieces

Tupperware legal director breaks down effective liaison with lawyers
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Watching the watchers
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Watching the watchers

Tough registration system has capital market gatekeepers under microscope
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In-house specialty

Outstanding in-house counsels' skills for being top
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Ethics for AI

Cloudwalk CLO gives his insights into status of AI ethics
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China Business Law Awards 2022

China Business Law Journal reveals the law firms that have excelled in the past year
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What does it take to be a top lawyer?

We asked some of our elite A-list lawyers to provide us with keywords that others might use to rise to the top of their game
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Market watch

In-house Counsel Awards revealed

After months of intensive market surveys and research, China Business Law Journal's editorial team unveils our In-house Counsel Award winners
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The art of bridge-building
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The art of bridge-building

Huarui Bank's counsel reveals how to work with external lawyers
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Towards the light
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Towards the light

Easing of regulations on offshore listing brings hope for an end to a long-running Sino-US dispute
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Next-gen IP protection
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Next-gen IP protection

Law firm views on IP and data protection in a tech-centric era
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Step up your legal game

Top GC reveals how to successfully apply project management
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Unchartered frontiers
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Unchartered frontiers

Blockchain platform founder analyses NFT realities in China
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When-worlds-collide
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When worlds collide

By Edward Chin
Will efforts to recognise and enforce foreign judgments in China overcome the clashes of the past?
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Constant calibration

Top corporate legal minds explain how they are assessing and adjusting their annual development strategies in these uncertain times
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DAOism: a new kind of faith
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DAOism: a new kind of faith

By Andrew Godwin
Decentralised autonomous organisations: Are we AI-aware?
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Rising Stars 2022

80 young elite lawyers for China market
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Needs of the many
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Needs of the many

What will common prosperity initiative mean for enterprises?
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Hard talk

Asian in-house counsel speak their minds on law firms
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Data crunch time

Sina Group’s GC unpacks core issues of data compliance
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Deals of the year 2021

We look back at the most significant transactions and disputes of last year
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Between rocks and hard places

Managing conflicting cross-border data access requests
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NFTs and the IP Conundrum

Digitally fluent GC shares NFT-related legal dilemmas
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Refining the rescue

How far is China from completing its restructuring and insolvency regime?
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The A-List 2021

We reveal our 200 elite lawyers from PRC and foreign law firms
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Priced to please

By Luna Jin
Our annual billing rates survey reveals Chinese law firms’ fees
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An inconvenient moment of truth

By Vandana Chatlani
How accountable should lawyers be for our climate woes?
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Stepping up

By Avery Chen
Senior lawyers from local and national firms analyse service demand and competition in Guangzhou’s legal market
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Burning ambition

By Luna Jin
Can China's desire to be a truly global dispute resolution centre be realised?
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In-house Insights

Creative defences

Legal director of Huayi Brothers shares IP protection tips under new law
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Putting zip in your Zoom

By John Miers
Need to spice up your Zoom? Communications expert John Miers shares tips and tricks for effective online presentations
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Finding the finance

ABS market seeks alternative financing avenues
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New frontiers

As Chinese financial markets become more sophisticated, companies are eyeing new possibilities to unlock value
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Past the pit stop

Challenges to overcome in reinvigorating China’s outbound investment
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Cover story

Sea change

Regulatory wave heightens personal data compliance requirements for internet platforms
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ICC clearly

ICC Court’s new president Claudia Salomon discusses her role and the future landscape of dispute resolution in Asia
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Testing the wind

Law firms stress the importance of compliance and risk management for reshaping business
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Ups & downs

Our annual legal market survey takes financial snapshot of Chinese law firms
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By the numbers

ACC's global survey maps the changing roles of in-house counsel
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In-house Insights

Compliance anxiety

In-house leaders reveal how to keep up with tectonic regulatory shifts
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Buckle up

CRRC’s top counsel explains how to ensure overseas compliance
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Open sesame

China woos world with asset management riches
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Gender in justice

Women lawyers across Asia share their personal stories of success, strategy and struggle for a more inclusive legal profession
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Cityscape

Zhejiang in a nutshell

Breaking into Zhejiang’s hot legal market is a tough nut to crack for national law firms as the locals hold the advantage
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Market watch

Lawyering 2.0

Technology adoption among established law firms has for ages been a slow ascent, but things are different in China. Legal tech companies here are leading innovation and are taking a more direct and homegrown approach than their global peers
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The taming of tech
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The taming of tech

The golden days of unfettered growth for China's homegrown tech companies could be coming to an end as regulators speed up data-oriented reforms. What are the legal pitfalls and the hefty consequences, and who will be most affected?
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In-house Insights

GC confidential

What qualities do effective general counsel need to be assets to their companies? We asked two prominent GCs for their candia personal views on where you need to be to have your legal department working at optimum for your company and its people
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Star struck

Through rolling reforms including the stellar success of the Star Market, mainland capital markets are soaring skyward, even as the trend of US IPOs maintains momentum. So, what is the right listing location for your company?
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Market watch

China Business Law Awards (Regional Awards) 2021

We reveal the regional winners of our China Business Law Awards
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Continual vigilance

Controlling legal risk goes beyond the legal department, and in-house counsel need a pragmatic approach, without letting perfection be the enemy of progress. Prominent counsel Peter Zhang offers advice from his decades of experience 
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Market SPACulation

Will Asia offer alternative forums for China’s current SPAC boom as the US loses its appetite?
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In-house Insights

Pirate hunters

Cognex Asia in-house counsel reveal how they hunt the pirates of their high-quality software products
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Market watch

China Business Law Awards 2021

China Business Law Awards 2021: We reveal which law firms excelled with the strongest performances during the most challenging year by offering their clients sophisticated and innovative legal solutions
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In-house Insights

How to be a successful in-house counsel

In-house award winners share must-have skills for successful GCs
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Cityscape

Jiangsu on song

How Jiangsu province is optimising its strengths and establishing a dominant position in east China’s legal market
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Tight times

Chinese law firms reveal their fees in our exclusive billing rates survey, shedding light on how reduced corporate budgets have affected the cost of legal services
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Learning on the fly

Minsheng Financial Leasing’s senior counsel, Fiona Sun, shares how business aviation has become a silver lining in the hard-hit sector
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Action plan

Five top in-house counsel share expectations for the new year, and reveal how they helped steady their company ships during the 2020 storm
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Market watch

In-house Counsel Awards 2020

China Business Law Journal reveals the country’s leading in-house lawyers and corporate legal teams
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Solving the IP puzzle

The blueprint for China’s top-down intellectual property (IP) reforms includes piecing together major judicial and legislative change, solving problems that have affected enterprises for decades. But do the changes go far enough?
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Rising Stars 2021

CBLJ presents a list of the country’s top up-and-coming legal talent
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How to be a top lawyer

Top 10 habits of most successful lawyers in China
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Pathfinder

Gerard Sanders moves on from his GC role at Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank and shares his formative work with the bank, and the past year’s challenges
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Deals of the year 2020

Deals of the Year: Highlighting the China-related transactions and cases that stood out in 2021. We revisit decisive moments for the legal market in the past year based on extensive editorial research
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Rising Stars 2023

100 young elite lawyers for China market

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The A-List 2022

After thorough editorial survey and research, China Business Law Journal presents the elite lawyers in China’s legal market

China Deals of the year 2022

Deals of the year 2022

The most exciting China-related legal transactions and disputes of 2022

CORRESPONDENTS

Fending off LNG trade risks

Fending off LNG trade risks with ‘back-to-back’ clauses

By Wang Jihong and Liang Danni, Zhong Lun Law Firm
Copyright Protection for Pop Music Arrangements

Can pop music arrangements be protected by copyright?

By Bai Xiaoyang, Wan Rui Law Firm
China proposal review

Proposal review: When shareholders and directors collide

By Wang Yuanyuan and Shi Cheng, Grandway Law Offices 

FEATURES

Moving with purpose

Winners of Rising Stars 2023 share secrets to their swift success

The corporate straight and narrow

Hang Dongxia, vice chairman of Juneyao Medical, explores the key issues and classic missteps in achieving good corporate governance

China tech-savvy legal systems

A battle of wits

China is emerging as a leader in legal technology as it reforms and modernises judicial framework

PRACTITIONERS' PERSPECTIVES

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Dilemma of applying punitive damages for IP rights

By Li Shujuan and Ma Yuntao, Ronly & Tenwen Partners
International arbitration v cross-border litigation

International arbitration v cross-border litigation: The pros and cons

By Hu Hongwei and Tan Shaoxuan, Dacheng Law Offices
Resolving foreign shareholder withdrawal

Resolving foreign shareholder withdrawal from Sino-foreign JVs

By Sun Shaosong and Niu Yue, Guantao Law Firm

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