2026law firm insights
Baker McKenzie: global sanctions, trade, tax, and data compliance insights
- Organization
- Baker McKenzie
- Practice use
- Multi-jurisdiction comparison, localization of group policies, and cross-border investigation coordination.
A multinational-law-firm perspective for comparing EU, U.S., UK, and Asia-Pacific rules, especially sanctions, customs, tax, data, and global employment issues.
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Clifford Chance: foreign investment screening, financial regulation, and disputes insights
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- Clifford Chance
- Practice use
- M&A feasibility, transaction conditions, regulator engagement, and dispute escalation.
Useful for legal teams tracking EU, UK, and U.S. national-security screening, financial regulation, sanctions, disputes, and energy-transition investment.
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Dentons Dacheng: BRI, construction, and cross-border compliance insights
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- Dentons Dacheng
- Practice use
- Project compliance, host-state law research, dispute planning, and multi-jurisdiction counsel coordination.
Dentons Dacheng's global network and Chinese practice materials are useful for construction, overseas investment, dispute resolution, sanctions, export controls, and local compliance.
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Fangda: cross-border transactions, antitrust, and regulatory investigation practice
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- Fangda Partners
- Practice use
- Transaction structuring, antitrust filings, dispute strategy, and regulator query responses.
Fangda insights support research on cross-border M&A, antitrust, dispute resolution, capital markets, and regulatory investigations.
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Freshfields: global regulatory, antitrust, and disputes briefings
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- Freshfields
- Practice use
- EU market access, regulatory investigations, supply-chain diligence, and cross-border litigation or arbitration.
Useful for tracking EU FDI screening, antitrust, supply chains, human-rights due diligence, financial sanctions, and major cross-border disputes.
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Han Kun: technology expansion, data, and capital markets practice
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- Han Kun Law Offices
- Practice use
- AI and platform product launch, overseas listing queries, data transfers, and investment-screening preparation.
Han Kun materials are useful for platform, AI, life-sciences, cross-border data, overseas listing, and financing issues, linking product compliance, disclosure, and operations.
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JunHe: overseas expansion, export controls, data, and cross-border transaction updates
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- JunHe
- Practice use
- Technology expansion, cross-border data plans, M&A approvals, and dispute response.
JunHe legal updates cover technology going global, cross-border data, sanctions and export controls, M&A, and dispute resolution, useful for transaction documents and internal-control adjustments.
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KWM: going-global and global compliance insights
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- King & Wood Mallesons
- Practice use
- Track Chinese counsel analysis of outbound investment rules, tariffs, and supply-chain compliance.
KWM regularly publishes Chinese-language practice pieces on outbound investment, supply chains, tariffs, tax, data, export controls, and cross-border transactions.
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Zhong Lun: overseas expansion, data compliance, and international trade remedies research
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- Zhong Lun
- Practice use
- Build legal memoranda for overseas projects from transaction, regulatory, and dispute angles.
Zhong Lun's research library covers going global, data transfers, antitrust, trade remedies, construction projects, and dispute resolution.
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Open resource2025multilateral practice
World Bank sanctions system and procurement compliance
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- World Bank
- Practice use
- Construction contracting, agent management, tender integrity, investigation cooperation, and settlement remediation.
Especially important for contractors in multilateral development bank projects, covering fraud, corruption, collusion, coercion, obstruction, and cross-debarment risk.
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Open resource2024regulator guidance
BIS export compliance program guidance
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- U.S. Commerce BIS
- Practice use
- Export and re-export control for semiconductors, AI, drones, sensors, cloud services, and dual-use products.
A practical export-control compliance framework covering management support, risk assessment, classification, end-use and end-user screening, recordkeeping, training, auditing, and remediation.
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Open resource2024regulatory explainer
EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive practice portal
- Organization
- European Commission
- Practice use
- EU customer questionnaires, contractual assurances, supplier tiering, and environmental and human-rights remediation roadmaps.
The CSDDD requires large companies to identify, prevent, mitigate, and end adverse human-rights and environmental impacts in operations, subsidiaries, and chains of activities; Chinese firms may be affected as suppliers or EU market operators.
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Open resource2024prosecutorial guidance
Evaluation of Corporate Compliance Programs
- Organization
- U.S. Department of Justice
- Practice use
- Group compliance design, investigation remediation, post-acquisition integration, and voluntary disclosure assessment.
A central document for how U.S. prosecutors assess corporate compliance programs, focusing on risk orientation, resources, data use, third-party management, M&A integration, and continuous improvement.
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Open resource2024regulator guidance
UFLPA Operational Guidance for Importers
- Organization
- U.S. Customs and Border Protection
- Practice use
- Supply-chain mapping, origin proof, purchase contracts, bills of materials, shipping chain, and supplier audits.
A reference for evidence packages in forced-labour enforcement, identifying transaction, production, shipping, supplier, and labour documentation expected from importers.
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Open resource2019regulator guidance
A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments
- Organization
- U.S. Treasury OFAC
- Practice use
- Sanctions screening, third-party diligence, payment approval, and board reporting.
A baseline sanctions compliance framework built around management commitment, risk assessment, internal controls, testing and auditing, and training. Useful for overseas subsidiaries, sales channels, and third-party payment controls.
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Open resource2018international guidance
Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct
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- OECD
- Practice use
- Supplier codes, grievance mechanisms, risk tiering, remediation plans, and stakeholder engagement.
A general due-diligence framework for ESG, human rights, labour, environment, and grievance mechanisms across multinational supply chains, useful alongside CSDDD, forced-labour, and sustainability-reporting obligations.
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