Using a dataset of Chinese judicial opinions arising in over fifty cases, this paper analyses the development and current implementation of shareholder derivative actions in the courts of the People's Republic of China (“PRC”), both before and after the derivative lawsuit was explicitly...

This essay examines an old question - why it is often so difficult for transplanted legal norms and institutions to take - with the hope of shedding a bit of new light on it through a specific focus on institutions for corporate governance in China. Foreign norms and institutions are borrowed...

An important school of thought in institutional economics (the quot;Rights Hypothesisquot;) holds that economic growth requires a legal order offering stable and predictable rights of property and contract because the absence of such rights discourages investment and specialization. Without the...

As Huawei has come under increasing scrutiny over the last several months, the question of who really owns and controls it has come to the fore. Huawei calls itself “employee-owned,” but this claim is questionable, and the corporate structure described on its website is misleading. A number...

A common explanation offered for PRC companies' listing overseas is that they receive a price premium because listing overseas demonstrates a willingness to submit to the more shareholder-protective regulatory regime of the foreign jurisdiction and stock market. This explanation is commonly...

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Local government financing vehicles (“LGFVs”) — companies capitalized and owned by local government and established for the purpose of raising funds for municipal infrastructure construction — emerged in China in the 1980s as a response to the severe constraints on indebtedness by local...