Foreign Direct Investment and Market Entry
Burgeoning domestic markets, increasingly favorable regulations governing foreign investment, and improving integration of China with the world economy present an abundance of opportunities for multinational firms. As a result, foreign direct investment in China has boomed, both in value and in complexity.
But pursuit of these opportunities is not without its pitfalls. China market entrants face myriad obstacles ranging from cultural and language barriers to structuring and control issues to lingering questions regarding the protection of intellectual property rights.
O’Melveny’s China Practice boasts a long history of successfully representing multinational entities with their foreign direct investment and acquisition projects in China. Chambers and Partners noted that we “garnered particular praise from clients for [our] representation of U.S. companies looking to enter the Chinese market or to expand and diversify their existing operations there through M&A deals.” We offer the full suite of relevant legal strengths in corporate, finance, intellectual property, government approvals, labor and employment, and tax law. Our experience reconciling relevant U.S. and Chinese legal practices affords our clients cutting edge insights into what will and will not work in the China market. And our track record of handling some of the most innovative transactions in this area is testament to that ability.