When Australian businesses transact with Chinese counterparties, contract language is more than a translation problem. It shapes enforceability, dispute resolution, and the effective scope of every clause.
We draft and review bilingual agreements where the English and Chinese versions carry equal legal weight. Both versions are prepared by native-speaking practitioners with commercial law expertise — not by translation software.
Key drafting principles include a governing-language clause, symmetrical dispute-resolution provisions, and reconciliation of common-law and civil-law concepts (such as "consideration" and "good faith") that do not translate directly.
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