Beijing –May 25, 2015 – The CCTV ( China Central Television ) invited Mr. Edward Lehman, the managing director of Lehman, Lee and Xu, to take part the CCTV live show “Dialogue” discussing American mathematician and Nobel Prize winner, John Nash who died in a car accident with his wife on May 23, 2015. Mr. …
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Beijing –May 24, 2015 – The CCTV ( China Central Television ) invited Mr. Edward Lehman, the Managing Director of Lehman, Lee and Xu, to take part the CCTV live show “Dialogue” to discuss the boom of birth tourism to the United States. “Birth Tourism refers to the practice of foreign women visiting the USA …
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By: Austin Brown and Joy Nemerson Throughout American history there have been many who have wanted to limit immigration to the country. The most recent rise of arguments against birth tourism is just the most recent example of these attitudes. Many of the arguments used today to display displeasure with the birth tourism phenomenon are …
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We have previously introduced bankruptcy as a potential tactic to enable collection on a court judgment. We have also discussed the additional procedures and authority of the bankruptcy proceeding which allow for much more thorough investigations by the bankruptcy court in determining what assets the debtor company may have, or has attempted to hide. In …
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As discussed in our previous Blawg post ( here ) it is an all too common occurrence in China for a party seeking to enforce a favorable judgment to find their counterparty’s bank accounts emptied. In this case, filing for the bankruptcy of the company having the judgment against it may be the only opportunity …
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One of the most frequent complaints heard from foreign firms involved in arbitration or litigation against a Chinese company is the difficulty to collect after a judgment in their favor. A typical situation goes like this: There is a dispute, for example a WFOE sells products to a Chinese company, yet the Chinese company fails …
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Dear fellow Intellectual Property professional, I attended my first INTA in 1974. Well, it was the USTA then, I was attending the conference with my parents, a self-entitled, narcissistic teenager. My father was an intellectual property lawyer at the time. The conference of about 225 IP professionals was held around a pool. As the INTA …
March 08, 2015, Beijing – Mr. Edward Lehman, Managing Director of Lehman, Lee & Xu joined CCTV ’s live coverage of the annual meeting of the National People’s Congress . Mr. Lehman added his voice to Professor Li Zhaojie from Tsinghua University in commenting on the 2015 Work Report of the Standing Committee of the …
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Lehman, Lee & Xu’s Managing Director, Edward Lehman, was quoted in an article published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday in relation to the nearly $1 billion fine issued by China’s anti-trust authority against Qualcomm, a maker of microchips. Edward Lehman’s areas of practice focus primarily on corporate commercial and regulatory matters, as well …
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On January 19, 2015, China’s Ministry of Commerce (“MOFCOM”) released the first exposure draft of its new Foreign Investment Law (中华人民共和国外国投资法). It has incorporated 170 articles in total and divided them into 11 Chapters. The proposed Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) is intended to replace three existing laws which currently govern foreign investment in China: (i) …
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