Professor Tarrant Mahony
email: tmmahony@yahoo.com
mobile: +86 13910784097
This course introduces PRC foreign investment and trade law from the perspective of a foreign practitioner. Major topics to be covered include the history of foreign investment in China; the types of investment vehicles currently available to foreign investors; the establishment and operation of foreign invested enterprises; the foreign investment approval regime; mergers and acquisitions in China; rules relating to state-owned assets; financing and the taking of security; mechanics of foreign trade and trading rights; land use rights and real estate; structuring of project finance deals; investment in restricted sectors; the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and other newly-established Free Trade Zones; the draft Foreign Investment Law and its implications; the role of foreign lawyers and law firms, and other issues. Course assignments will include readings from the textbook (Foreign Investment Law in China: Regulation, Practice and Context), as well as primary sources in the Course Reader (English translations of PRC foreign-investment related laws and regulations). Class time will involve presentations on the topics to be covered and discussion of questions commonly posed by foreign clients interested in doing business in China. Students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss the assigned material and answer the accompanying questions.
email: tmmahony@yahoo.com
mobile: +86 13910784097
This course introduces PRC foreign investment and trade law from the perspective of a foreign practitioner. Major topics to be covered include the history of foreign investment in China; the types of investment vehicles currently available to foreign investors; the establishment and operation of foreign invested enterprises; the foreign investment approval regime; mergers and acquisitions in China; rules relating to state-owned assets; financing and the taking of security; mechanics of foreign trade and trading rights; land use rights and real estate; structuring of project finance deals; investment in restricted sectors; the Shanghai Pilot Free Trade Zone and other newly-established Free Trade Zones; the draft Foreign Investment Law and its implications; the role of foreign lawyers and law firms, and other issues. Course assignments will include readings from the textbook (Foreign Investment Law in China: Regulation, Practice and Context), as well as primary sources in the Course Reader (English translations of PRC foreign-investment related laws and regulations). Class time will involve presentations on the topics to be covered and discussion of questions commonly posed by foreign clients interested in doing business in China. Students are expected to come to class prepared to discuss the assigned material and answer the accompanying questions.