Kent Kedl, Senior Partner, and Ben Li, Associate Director, at Control Risks explain that conflicts of interest are easy to come by but much harder to deal with A conflict of interest (COI) occurs when an employee derives personal benefit from actions or decisions made in their official capacity within the company. Some recent, real-life examples include: A foreign company bought a Mainland China-based company and retained the former owners …
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Kieran Porter of Elicius explains what corporate intelligence actually is, who needs it and why, and the pitfalls to look out for “People should have seen this coming” was the widespread reaction to the recent dramatic downfall of Luckin Coffee. China’s US-listed Starbucks challenger dropped 90 percent of its RMB 85 billion valuation in April and was raided by regulators as part of an investigation into its accounting practices. But …
For any UK company seeking to enter, or expand operations within, the China market, the words ‘Intellectual Property’ (IP) hold an immense amount of clout. Protecting IP is relevant across every industry and sector – from engineering to automobiles to medicine, and actors in all of these industries are sensitive to the value of their IP and the great costs that are associated with its compromise. One analogy of …