Many years ago, I represented a creditor with a fairly small claim in one of Russia's first bankruptcies. I sent a freshly minted law school graduate to the creditors meeting on Sakhalin Island (he was already on Sakhalin for other reasons) to monitor our client's interests. I envisioned his role would be to babysit our client's claim. Within days, this new associate was calling our office with all sorts of technical American law bankruptcy questions. Turns out the Russian lawyers and the judge were essentially relying on our new associate to run the bankruptcy because none of them had any familiarity with bankruptcy and they were looking to "the American" to explain it to them. I can see that same sort of thing happening in some of China's courts as well, particularly if the foreign lawyer involved in the bankruptcy speaks Chinese.