On 3 December 2014, Transparency International (“TI”) launched its latest Corruption Perceptions Index (“CPI”) 2014. The CPI ranks countries and territories based on how corrupt their public sector is perceived to be. In this latest CPI, 175 countries are included. Significance of the CPI The CPI Index was established in 1995 as a…
China’s draft amendments to the PRC Criminal Law (“the Draft Amendments”) were released in early November for public…
 Last week we analyzed the view of US antitrust enforcers on the existence of a compliance program when…
In previous years, foreign-invested enterprises (“FIEs”) and their branches in China had the certainty that they would need to undergo the annual inspection filing with the business registration authority between March to June each year, and if they passed, they would be deemed to be in “good standing”. This year,…
Disclosure of environmental, human rights and social risks is moving from its home between the glossy pages of voluntary reports into the hard-nosed realm of mandatory legal requirements, as evidenced by recent developments in the European Union and India.
Over the past two months, China produced a wave of interesting developments in international taxation. On June 26,…
On 11 August 2014, a Shanghai Court sentenced two Corporate Investigators to two and a half years imprisonment. Peter Humphrey and his wife, Yu Yingzeng, were held guilty of stealing and selling personal information for profit once they confessed having obtained private information on Chinese citizens by illegal means. Together…
On 1 March 2014, the Regulations on Establishing a Commercial Bribery Blacklist for the Purchase and Sale of…