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By: Why Many Chinese Entrepreneurs Don't Like Lawyers | The China Vortex

Why Many Chinese Entrepreneurs Don't Like Lawyers | The China Vortex — Wed, 19 Mar 2008 02:52:37 +0000

[...] legal information about Chinese business and investment regulations and one of his comments in my previous post got me thinking about why Chinese entrepreneurs don’t like to work not just with American [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:26:37 +0000

Quite interesting, but I doubt China has enough talents as LPs with US VC firms

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Tue, 18 Mar 2008 12:17:59 +0000

[...] Time For Chinese Money to Buy Silicon Valley Startups? It would also be a good release of all that capital floating around in China, and is mostly going into real estate and other junk investments in China which don’t offer good ROI, especially with rising inflation. … [...]

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Time For Chinese Money to Buy Silicon Valley Startups? — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:21:58 +0000

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By: Time For Chinese Money to Buy Silicon Valley Startups?

Time For Chinese Money to Buy Silicon Valley Startups? — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 08:13:12 +0000

[...] Real Estate news | wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt The very dramatic unwinding of Bear Stearns and the purchase of its shares at a fire sale price by JP Morgan Chase has raised some very interesting questions. Put simply, American assets are going to have to go at fire sale prices. We’re not talking about the Japanese buying Rockefeller Center, I mean real valuable and sometimes tangible assets. Remember that? And they will be denominated in US dollars, which most American banks still take. So this means a bargain on America for buyers smart [...]

By: China Law Blog

China Law Blog — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:56:37 +0000

Right idea. Wrong country. What you predict will happen, I am certain of it. I am certain of it because our German and Russian clients have over the last few weeks been calling us (here in the US) like crazy to help with this or that deal they are doing or want to do. The deals range from high tech to old line manufacturing (that’s right) to real estate. When we tell them our legal fees I can almost hear them gasp (particularly the Germans) at how low they seem for those used to paying in Euros. That’s right, step right up, the US is on sale to foreigners ….. Like it or not. BTW, no calls from Chinese and I don’t expect many either, both because they tend not to use lawyers so much and they also tend not to be big buyers of existing US companies. At least not yet.

By: Time For Chinese Money to Buy Silicon Valley Startups?

Time For Chinese Money to Buy Silicon Valley Startups? — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:51:21 +0000

[...] Warez Cat wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerpt The very dramatic unwinding of Bear Stearns and the purchase of its shares at a fire sale price by JP Morgan Chase has raised some very interesting questions. Put simply, American assets are going to have to go at fire sale prices. We’re not talking about the Japanese buying Rockefeller Tower, I mean real valuable and sometimes tangible assets. Remember that? And they will be denominated in US dollars, which most American banks still take. So this means a bargain on America for buyers smart e [...]