21 January 2020
China | Foreign Direct Investment
Last March, China unveiled its new Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) to great fanfare, but it wasn’t until the end of the year that the State Council released, at the very last minute, the final version of the Implementing Regulations for the Foreign Investment Law (“Implementing Regulations”) to facilitate the FIL’s implementation. Both the FIL and its Implementing Regulations came into effect on 1 January 2020, forming the new fundamental legal basis for China’s foreign investment framework.
Click below to download and read this Client Alert in full: it summarises the highlights of the Implementing Regulations, as well as the potential implications for foreign investments in China under the new regulatory regime.