Intellectual Property: This can include trademarks, patents, copyright, and technology licensing. Here you’ll need records of ownership or a license agreement for all IP that is being used by the Chinese company. Understand that if you’ll need to obtain the IP rights of a Chinese company to allow you to continue its procedures as these rights take some time. The firm who is executing your legal due diligence might be capable to counsel you on drafting an agreement about the utilization of IP rights while you are looking forward to an assignment. Also make sure that the company is not infringing anyone else’s intellectual property rights. And something that is often ignored, check who the company’s IP rights may be registered to, for how long, and whether or not this is in line with your plans for the company. . . . → Read More: Legal Due Diligence In China: Standard Types

‘An institutional view of China’s venture capital industry: Detailing the differences in between China and the West’, Garry D Bruton and David Ahlstrom- Journal of Business Venturing 18(2), March 2003, 233. When a firm has passed on its primary assessment, venture capitalists in the West commence with due diligence, generally together with evidence of the characteristics and position of the firm’s product, creation potential, market demand, and status of key associations with other businesses (Fried and Hisrich, 1994). When venture capitalists first entered China, due diligence for funded projects in China was limited in extent; in part, for the reason that support activities upon which Western venture capitalists rely to perform such activities were not present [Bruton et al., 1999] and [Mann, 1997]. . . . → Read More: Evaluating The Business With Your Due Diligence In China