The Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) has revoked the asset management licence of Axial Capital Management Limited (Axial) for repeated failures to comply with the Securities...

The Situation: On July 14, 2020, President Trump signed into law the Hong Kong Autonomy Act (the "HKAA"), the U.S. government's response to China's new National Security Law for Hong Kong.

On January 19, 2017, the Bureau of Industry and Security ("BIS") published a final rule regarding new support documentation requirements with respect to exports to Hong Kong.

New laws that will come into effect on 11 December 2004 will significantly liberalise foreign participation in retail and wholesale activities in China. The new measures will significantly relax the requirements for establishing foreign invested enterprises ("FIEs") in wholesale, retail and related sectors, partially remove geographic restrictions and simplify approval procedures.

On November 14th, Corporate Accounting Services Senior Associate, Ishtaa Jain, will discuss the Goods and Services Tax (GST) on overseas transactions in India.

The European Parliament rejected, on 23 April, the European Commission's proposal to remove the United Arab Emirates, Gibraltar and other countries from its list of ‘high-risk third country jurisdictions' with strategic deficiencies in their anti-money laundering and combating the terrorist financing regimes.

Beginning on April 19, 2017, individuals and companies planning to export to or re- export from Hong Kong will need to obtain certain paperwork prior to shipping.

In recent weeks, courts in England and Hong Kong have taken the opportunity to set out the serious consequences that follow from deliberately breaching disclosure orders made in the context

The Hong Kong Court of First Instance has dismissed an application to discharge an anti-suit injunction restraining Russian court proceedings brought in breach of an agreement providing for HKIAC...

Unlike the position in Hong Kong, the major laws and regulations governing the protection of intellectual property rights in Mainland China do not explicitly set out restrictions on parallel importation.

In light of the unprecedented imposition of financial sanctions on certain individuals and entities in Hong Kong and Mainland China by the US government (US Sanctions)

The Hong Kong government, via Acting Secretary for Commerce and Economic Development Dr Bernard Chan and in response to a query from lawmaker, the Hon. Kenneth Leung, issued a press release

Parallel import means the import of goods from elsewhere for resale in Hong Kong. Different from pirated or counterfeited goods, they are manufactured by or with the authority of the intellectual property rights owners (eg trademark or copyright owner) and are legitimately produced and marketed abroad.

In Bright Shipping Limited v Changhong Group (HK) Limited [2024] HKCFI 821, the Hong Kong Court ordered a defendant who had failed to satisfy...

Trade with Hong Kong is booming. In such an energised marketplace, it is important to understand the legal parameters for importing and exporting.

AlixPartners' Asia Risk Advisory team rounds up the trends, imperatives, and real-world challenges that dominated the conversation this year, onstage and off.

As we enter 2004 and the Year of the Monkey, China is facing increasing pressure from the rest of the world to revalue its currency and to remove other perceived artificial benefits to exporters.

Long before it was established as a special administrative region of China, the Fragrant Harbor ("Hong Kong") was considered a separate economy from China ("the PRC") for trade purposes.

Pursuant to the Closer Economic Partnership Arrangement ("CEPA") signed between Mainland China and Hong Kong SAR on 29 June 2003, the Mainland have applied zero tariff on certain imported goods of Hong Kong origin commencing from 1 January 2004.

The Business Advisory lists risks and considerations for businesses operating in Hong Kong that have arisen since the implementation of the PRC National Security Law (NSL) in both China and Hong Kong.