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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