Since May 2007, any injection of foreign capital in foreign-invested real estate enterprises (FIREEs) must be recorded with the PRC Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).

The April edition of Baker & McKenzie's Hotels, Resorts & Tourism Newsletter discusses the 10 issues relevant to the potential acquisition of a portfolio of serviced apartment management businesses in Australia.

Since May 2007, any injection of foreign capital in foreign-invested real estate enterprises (FIREEs) must be recorded with the PRC Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).

This update includes some China FIREE recordal statistics and data from January 2012 up to the end of February 2012.

Since May 2007, any injection of foreign capital in foreign-invested real estate enterprises (FIREEs) must be recorded with the PRC Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM).

On 27 February 2012 the Ministry of Public Works and Services of the Government of the Federal District (the GDF) published International Bid Tender (IBT) No. LP/GDF/SOS/DGSU/CONCESIÓN/001/2012 (the Bid) to grant a concession for a term of 25 years for urban solid waste, property of the Federal District found at the IV Stage of the Bordo Poniente Landfill (the Landfill), to capture and use biogas generated by these wastes, to be used as fuel and/or to generate electricity (the Project), and to register the Project under the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) of the Kyoto Protocol before the appropriate agency or before the respective bodies in the carbon credit markets, to obtain these credits and/or the applicable credits for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions; all this in order to conclude the final shutdown of the IV phase of this landfill.

An overview of recent key legal developments in China.

A new law will affect some aspects of Ukraine's real estate situation.

On 30 December 2011 the Law of Ukraine On Introducing Amendments to Section X "Transitional Provisions" of the Land Code of Ukraine Concerning Prohibition on the Alienation and Rezoning of Agricultural Land took effect.

Foreign-invested real estate enterprises (FIREEs) Recordals provide useful perspective on the trend and pace of new foreign capital inflow into the China real estate sector. This Update gives you FIREE recordal statistics covering the fourth quarter of 2011.

As announced a few days ago by Secretary of State Frédéric Lefebvre, the 2 percent tax will be shelved even before seeing the light of day. The bill for the Fourth Modified Finance Act for 2011, discussions on which start today at the French National Assembly, retroactively repeals, as of 1 November 2011 the tax introduced by the same lawmakers in September this year. This tax should therefore never be applied.

This is the November 2011 edition of the China Real Estate & Hotel Law Insight & Update.

For the third consecutive year, Baker & McKenzie has been awarded Euromoney's Real Estate Award as "Best for Legal Services - Global".

This is the October 2011 edition of the China Real Estate & Hotel Law Insight & Update.

On 12 October 2011, the PRC Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) announced further detailed rules for foreign investors to use their offshore RMB funds to invest in real estate and certain other types of projects in China. These rules contain 16 articles and are entitled Notice of the Ministry of Commerce on Issues relating to Cross-border RMB Direct Investment (Shang Zi Han [2011] No. 889) (商务部关于跨境人民币直接投资有关问题的通知)(商资函[2011]第889号) (the Notice).