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An essential resource for corporate counsel, this accessible text provides detailed practical guidance on international sales agreements, crossborder agency and distribution agreements, franchising, licensing and intellectual property issues, transborder joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions, tax aspects of international transactions, and crossborder dispute resolution. Published under the Transnational Publishers imprint

Legal practise is shaped by its social, political and economic environment. Canada's "new economy" of decreasing state regulation, globalization, computerization and changes in information technology, and the shift from manufacturing to the service sector has grave - largely negative - implications for the future of law and lawyers. Moreover, the profession is fragmented and stratified. It comprises multiple constituencies - solo practitioners, large corporate firms and specialists - with differing demographies and professional roles, which are implicated in varying degrees in the "new economy". As a result, they experience the restructuring of professional knowledge, governance, ethics and culture in ways so diverse as to put in question the prospects of a common professional future.

Who's the client? -- Confidentiality owed to existing and former clients -- The lawyer as intermediary -- Corporate internal investigations : what about confidentiality? -- Parent-subsidiary related party transactions -- The corporate opportunity doctrine and the lawyer's role -- The multiple representation dilemma for the business attorney -- Screening and the personally disqualified attorney -- Business attorney as litigator in corporate settings -- Lawyers taking equity interests in their clients -- Inside counsel -- Counsel as director?

Although the rise of China as an economic powerhouse has attracted considerable academic attention, until recently, the role of Chinese corporate lawyers in this age of economic prosperity and the growth of the Chinese corporate bar have been under-explored in the field. Over the last few years, a small but growing academic literature on Chinese corporate lawyers has started to appear and has shed valuable light on our understanding of the Chinese corporate bar in the era of globalization. Inspired by both U.S. theoretical paradigms and local practice patterns, this literature mainly focuses on the global-local dynamics of the Chinese legal profession and the Chinese corporate legal services market, investigating the relationship between the global diffusion of corporate lawyering and the local logics of the corporate law market. This article reviews this increasingly significant line of research and develops new inquiries about Chinese corporate lawyers.