China’s variable interest entities: how long will they last?
Events at Alibaba and JD.com have put the arcane but ubiquitous Chinese corporate legal structure in the news; how safe are they for foreign corporates and is change in the air?
The legal structure for almost all of China’s internet titans, the variable interest entity (VIE), is as ingenious as it is fragile – and yet this workaround to Chinese laws on foreign ownership underpins an industry worth more than $1 trillion.
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