{"id":838,"date":"2019-05-21T14:26:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/?p=838"},"modified":"2019-05-21T14:26:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T06:26:34","slug":"basic-procedure-for-a-foreign-company-purchasing-a-chinese-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/basic-procedure-for-a-foreign-company-purchasing-a-chinese-company\/","title":{"rendered":"Basic procedure for a foreign company purchasing a Chinese company"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I: Procedure<\/p>\n<p>1. Preparation of documentation: client prepares relating documents (e.g. Business license, incorporation certificate, and credibility letter by bank). The clients then signs &amp; stamps the files prepared by the lawyer (e.g. the agreement on the shareholding transfer, all application forms and the resolution of the board); asset evaluation report.<\/p>\n<p>2. Notary for the shareholding transfer agreement.<\/p>\n<p>3. A Certificate of Approval issued by the Foreign Trade Department.<\/p>\n<p>4. A change of the Business License by the Industrial &amp; Commercial Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>5. Capital injection and the settlement of exchange of foreign currency (payment of the shareholding transfer).<\/p>\n<p>6. Application for a foreign currency certificate and a certificate of local and national tax.<\/p>\n<p>7. Approval by Customs and Commodity Inspection Bureau.<\/p>\n<p>II: Notes<\/p>\n<p>1. The business scope of the target company that the foreign company purchases shall comply with the regulation of \u201cInstructional items of industries that foreign company invests&#8221;. If the nature of the industry is one prohibited to foreign companies, the foreign company is not able to carry out the share purchase.<\/p>\n<p>2. The notary and verification by the Chinese embassy or consulate on the relating files is very important.<\/p>\n<p>3. The shareholding transferred shall not be less than 25% of the target company.<\/p>\n<p>4. The foreign companies payment injection shall be remitted from abroad and from the bank account in the exact name of that company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preparation of documentation: client prepares relating documents (e.g. Business license, incorporation certificate, and credibility letter by bank). The clients then signs &#038; stamps the files prepared by the lawyer (e.g. the agreement on the shareholding transfer, all application forms and the resolution of the board); asset evaluation report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":592,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":839,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions\/839"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.royalaw.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}