Yangquan Cross-Border Disputes: Why US Founders Need Local Chinese Lawyers for Arbitration
When a Shanxi Contract Dispute Lands in Arbitration: What US Founders Need to Know Last quarter, a client from Texas called us in a panic. His company had signed a supply agreement with a manufacturer in Yangquan, Shanxi Province. The goods arrived late, the specs were off, and the Chinese partner stopped responding to emails. The contract had an arbitration clause pointing to a Chinese arbitration commission. My client — let’s call him Dave — assumed he could just hire a US lawyer, file the claim remotely, and wait for a check. ...