HONOLULU—For U.S. businesses, China can often be a mysterious and daunting market especially with the rapidly growing legal landscape evolving just within the past 20 years. Audrey Hong Li, partner at Shu Jin Law Firm, spoke at JAIMS to help clarify recent developments on foreign investment and dispute resolution in China.

With over 12 years of practical legal experience in the field, Hong Li covered the history of foreign investment in China and cited recent developments in regulations that suggest that now is an opportune time to enter China. Foreign operations will become more streamlined, and mergers and acquisitions, both domestic and cross border, will become enormous, she said.

With her seven years of experience at the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC), Hong Li expounded on the intricacies of dispute resolution and the significant considerations one needs for arbitrating before CIETAC. She also discussed CIETAC developments in domain name dispute resolution and financial dispute arbitration rules.

The discussion was held on February 23 before JAIMS’ China-focused MBA students as part of their curriculum.

Audrey Hong Li is a Chinese lawyer based in Shanghai with more than 12 years practical legal experience in international arbitration, foreign direct investment and international trade, and corporate transactions. She is a partner of Shu Jin Law Firm and was nominated as Young Leaders Forum 2003 Fellow by the national committee on United States-China Relations. Previously, Hong Li worked at the China International Economic & Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC) then was a partner at Concord & Partners, a top five Chinese law firm in Beijing and Shenzhen. She received an LL.M in corporate law from New York University Law School in May 2002, in addition to an LL.M in international economic law from Wuhan University Law School in 1997.