Quick Guide: Commercial Contracts and Boilerplate | Practical Law

Quick Guide: Commercial Contracts and Boilerplate | Practical Law

A quick guide to the China commercial contracts and boilerplate topic collection which contains resources to help lawyers draft, localise and comment on major commercial contracts including supply agreements, confidentiality agreements, agency agreements or distribution agreements where the counterparty is performing its obligations in China.

Quick Guide: Commercial Contracts and Boilerplate

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Quick Guide: Commercial Contracts and Boilerplate

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A quick guide to the China commercial contracts and boilerplate topic collection which contains resources to help lawyers draft, localise and comment on major commercial contracts including supply agreements, confidentiality agreements, agency agreements or distribution agreements where the counterparty is performing its obligations in China.

Commercial Contracts and Boilerplate Topic Collection

How should you localise a distribution agreement for China? What key points of Chinese law should you be aware of when you are drafting a commercial contract? Do you need to change your standard boilerplate for use in China?
Resources under the commercial contracts and boilerplate topic collection help lawyers draft, localise or comment on commercial contracts with Chinese counterparties. This collection also includes a full set of Chinese-law-compliant boilerplate clauses.
This collection includes:
  • Standard boilerplate clauses for use in commercial contracts with a Chinese counterparty governed by Chinese, Hong Kong or English law.
  • Standard commercial contracts for use where the counterparty is based in China, including a confidentiality agreement, agency agreement, distribution agreement, supply of goods agreement, supply of services agreement and performance guarantee.
  • Practice notes covering a wide variety of commercial topics, including choice of governing law in China-related contracts, protecting commercial rights and interests in China and execution of contracts and documents in China.
  • Q&A guides to Chinese law on key areas of commercial activity including advertising, distribution, franchising, online advertising and marketing, product liability and more.
For a full list of the resources in this collection, see Commercial contracts and boilerplate topic home page.
All standard documents and standard clauses are available in English-Chinese bilingual versions. For a full list of the bilingual resources, see Practical Law China bilingual content.
To download the Word version of each standard document and standard clause in Chinese:
  • Follow the link to the English version of the document that you want.
  • Click the Chinese language version link at the bottom of the abstract of the English version.