Co-sponsored by the Academic Committee and Asia Practice Committee, AABANY

Please join us and our legal experts for a roundtable discussion about leading issues facing Chinese companies doing business in the USA.  Discussion will explore China-US trade war and new restrictions on Chinese outbound investment into US technology companies.  Roundtable will feature Professor Li’s recent academic research on how Chinese companies react to the host country's law and preferences expressed by Chinese companies in selecting US lawyers.

• China Outbound Direct Investment: CFIUS (Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States) scrutiny and new FIRRMA (Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act) pilot program 
• Cross-border M&A
• Cross-border disputes - venue; discovery; enforcement; dispute resolution
• China’s capital control (optional)

Date: November 14 (Wednesday), 2018 
Place: JAMS, 620 8th Ave (New York Times Building), 34th Floor, New York, New York
Time: 7:00 to 8:30 pm, refreshments served

Panelists:
Alex Hao, Partner, JunHe New York Office
Ji Li, Author of The Clash of Capitalisms? Chinese Companies in the United States (Cambridge University Press)/Professor of Law, Rutgers Law School 
Ruth Jin, The Jin Law Group

Jian Wu, International Lawyer, Kobre & Kim

Ann Lee, CEO, Coterie (Single Family Office)

Program Chairs:

Conlyn Chan, SVP, Hongkun USA

Suzanne Kim, Professor of Law, Rugters Law School

Chris Kwok, Mediator, JAMS

Seth Endo, Visiting Assistant Professor, NYU Law School

About Our Host (JAMS):

Founded in 1979, JAMS is the largest private alternative dispute resolution (ADR) provider in the world. With its prestigious panel of neutrals, JAMS specializes in mediating and arbitrating complex, multi-party, business/commercial cases. JAMS is a recognized global leader in international mediation and arbitration. 

About Our Association AABANY:

The Asian American Bar Association of New York was formed in 1989 as a not-for-profit corporation to represent the interests of New York Asian-American attorneys, judges, law professors, legal professionals, legal assistants or paralegals and law students. The mission of AABANY is to improve the study and practice of law, and the fair administration of justice for all by ensuring the meaningful participation of Asian-Americans in the legal profession.   Now one of the most prominent and active minority bar associations in New York, AABANY has well over 1,200 members, including practicing attorneys in the private and public sectors, in-house lawyers, judges, professors and law students.