At the height of the pandemic, Chinese vaccine maker Sinovac was a hero and one of the country’s most promising companies. But its success masked a protracted dispute between rival investors and management for control of the cash-rich company. The Wire China investigates what went wrong.
People receive COVID-19 vaccines at a vaccination site in a stadium in Minhang District, Shanghai, March 28, 2021. Credit: Liu Ying/Xinhua via Getty Images
It was past dusk when Sinovac’s special shareholders meeting kicked off in St. John’s, Antigua on July 8. At a law firm tucked into a back alley, a short drive away from the country's High Court building, a throng of lawyers prepared to square off in the latest round of a years-long fight for control of China’s flagship COVID-19 vaccine maker.
Several tumultuous weeks of legal proceedings had built to this point. The two factions competing for control of Nasdaq-listed Sinovac had be
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