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Outbound legal routing desk
Practical orientation for Chinese companies, investors and families taking an overseas decision. Identify the matter, separate the legal systems, then choose a corridor, guide or counsel route.
Route fileStart with the situation
These are routing doors—not legal conclusions. Each route directs you to the appropriate next layer of research, location context or counsel discovery.
Company route
Start with the commercial move, then map ownership, approvals, funding, destination controls and operating dependencies.
Open the company routeOperating route
Sequence people, contracts, data, trade controls, intellectual property and local operating obligations around one legal route.
Explore overseas operationsFamily route
Use a calm planning path for residence, property, assets, succession, wealth, family matters and disputes.
Open the family routeDestination route
Place the matter in a destination context, then identify whether the next step is research, local counsel or a coordinated team.
Browse country corridorsRoute fileThe routing principle
A destination is not the same as a legal issue. Keep the China-side and host-country workstreams visible at the same time, then coordinate the decision between them.
Corporate purpose, approvals, filing or registration, capital route and China-side evidence.
Foreign-investment screening, ownership restrictions, transaction approvals and local set-up.
Next useful outcomeA sequence that shows which approval, filing or advisor must move first.
Foreign exchange, personal or corporate documentation, China employment and family ties.
Immigration or residence, local employment, title, reporting and tax residence questions.
Next useful outcomeA fact pack that can travel intelligently between both sides of the matter.
PRC data export, trade classification, IP ownership and operating controls.
Privacy, sanctions, product, employment, commercial and intellectual property requirements.
Next useful outcomeA coordinated risk map before products, data or IP cross the border.
Route fileDestination context
Country routes give legal-market context and an explicit path to appropriately qualified local counsel. Use the full destinations index when the market is not listed here.
Regional holding, finance and operating gateway
Corporate · employment · dataInvestment review, market entry and commercial operations
CFIUS · M&A · IPInvestment, employment, property and private client
Corporate · arbitration · successionManufacturing and Southeast Asia operating route
Entity · employment · tradeOpen the full country and destination corridor index.
Directory of corridorsExplore outbound City Desks
When a transaction, employer, asset, dispute, investment or governing law is concentrated in a specific market, move from the country corridor into the local City Desk.
United States · When the legal centre of gravity is New York.
Transaction · Contract · ForumUnited Kingdom · When the legal centre of gravity is London.
English law · Transaction · ArbitrationJapan · When the legal centre of gravity is Tokyo.
JV · Licensing · OperationsUnited Arab Emirates · When the legal centre of gravity is Dubai.
Regional setup · Trade · MobilityVietnam · When the legal centre of gravity is Ho Chi Minh City.
Manufacturing · Trade · LabourUnited States · When the legal centre of gravity is Los Angeles.
Trade · IP · California forumA deliberate handoff
The complete Going Global Legal Guides library retains the substantive resource catalogue. This routing desk surfaces only the next useful questions.
Explore the legal guide libraryCapital route
Identify the China-side approval and funding sequence before capital moves.
Open the ODI and funding roadmapOperating model
Choose the right structure before the first overseas hire or assignment.
Open the employer and mobility guidePersonal planning
Map assets and legal systems before planning succession documents.
Open the succession counsel routeThe research boundary
Use these route pages to identify the next decision and the relevant legal systems. Detailed legal analysis, checklists and country-specific guidance remain in the Going Global Legal Guides library.
When you are ready to act
For an outbound investment, operating decision, move or family matter, make the China-side and destination-country workstreams explicit from the start. The right route may involve PRC counsel, appropriately qualified local counsel, or both.
Going Global crossroadsContinue through the system
Move between the four route files, a destination corridor, counsel discovery or the workstream that owns the next decision.
