U.S. investors interested in investing in advanced Chinese technology companies may now be constrained by the U.S. Government’s first-ever outbound investment rule (Final Rule) which took effect on Jan. 2, 2025. The Final...more
China’s amended Law on Guarding State Secrets (“SSL”) took effect on May 1, 2024. This amendment is part of a broader legislative push to enhance national security and data protection, aligning with other recent laws such as...more
On March 6, 2020, the State Administration of Market Regulation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Standardization Administration of the PRC published an updated version of the “Information security...more
For the past several years, the Cyberspace Administration of China (the “CAC”) has risen to a very important status among the Chinese national government’s agencies. However, it lacks a specific procedural law to empower it...more
The Cyber Security Law was adopted in November 2016 and will become effective on June 1, 2017. The Cyber Security Law creates a new concept of Critical Information Infrastructure (“CII”). The operators of CII are subject to...more