Asian Legal Business is supporting Practical Law China in a benchmarking survey of leading legal practitioners on the choice of governing law in China-related contracts.
Governing law clauses are regarded by clients as boilerplate, by transactional lawyers as an important negotiating point, and by litigators as critical to whether multibillion dollar cases are won or lost. In-house lawyers at many multinational companies still remain cautious of committing to Chinese-law governed contracts, but are uncertain when they can validly choose a foreign law for their China transactions. The single most popular resource on Practical Law China since the service launched has been the Practice note, Choice of governing law in China-related contracts, which explains what "foreign-related" contracts (涉外合同) are, when foreign law can be chosen in a contract with a Chinese counterpart, and which contracts must be governed by Chinese law.
Join Practical Law China, Asia Legal Business and dozens of the region's best-known practitioners who have already answered the largest ever survey of law firm and in-house lawyers practising in Asia to investigate:
• What governing law is most used in different kinds of China cross-border deals
• Key factors behind the choice of governing law
• Breakdowns by region and industry type
• Current trends
Participate anonymously or leave your email and receive an advance copy of the results before they are published.
Click here to participate in the Governing Law Survey.
The results will be shared in the next Practical Law China email update and on the Asian Legal Business website so that you can benchmark your practice against the market.
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