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Conditions for Dormant Investment Compliance in China

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(By Lear Gong) Regulation No.3 on Several Issues Concerning the Application of the Company Law issued by the Supreme People’s Court (“Corporation Interpretation III”), which was promulgated and came into effect on January 27, 2011, contains specific regulation on application of law with respect to dormant investment. Regulation No.1 on Several Issues Concerning the Hearing of Disputes Involving Foreign Invested Companies by Supreme People’s Court (“Foreign Investment Interpretation I”) also contains detailed regulation on dormant investment in companies.

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Risk and Its Prevention for Dormant Investment in China

By Luo Yanjie

Recently, Shanghai Huangpu People’s Court issued white paper about cases involved Non-State-Invested Units. The white paper disclosed that the dormant investment is ubiquitous in Non-State-Invested Units during the process of their establishment, and that not only makes investors’ rights and interests unguaranteed, but also cause a serious threat to the commercial good-faith. As introduced, some actual investor would not like to establish the company in their own names considering various factors, but registered the company in others’ name. It results lots of disputes. Now we would like to discuss the risk of “dormant investment” and introduce how to reduce the risk as follows:

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The Validity of Foreign Investor’s Share Holding In the Name of Chinese Dormant Citizens

By Luo Yanjie

As reported, 24quan.com, a Chinese daily-deal website, is undergoing a contentious conflict (note: the link is in Chinese) between its operation team and investors. Berjaya Corporation Bhd (Berjaya), the biggest investor of the website and registered in Malaysia, accused the operation team of withholding  RMB 2 million yuan with no authorization, yet the team responded by saying that the investor was unilaterally deducing the share held by the team from 40% to 3%. Currently, the website and the company is under the control of the team, who has dismissed the staffs appointed by the investor, and in retaliation, the investor announce that their funding cease.

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