After a banner year in 2009, when Chinese firms found themselves positioned well compared to their cash-strapped counterparts overseas during the recession, the prospects for 2010 are rosy.
Conflicts also can be found when firms pursue different lines of business through affiliated companies.
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But still, most firms found it hard to spot a value activity when it hit their factory floor.
The CBI's own study of the issue, published in 2005, found that many small firms settled claims even when they had legal advice that they might well win.
The CBI's survey found that 34% of firms were less optimistic about prospects than when they were last quizzed in July, while 15% were more optimistic.
Most of the 25 lawyers who were made redundant when law firm Semple Fraser collapsed two weeks ago have already found jobs with other firms, according to administrator RSM Tenon.
The scandal began in January when Irish food inspectors announced that they had found horsemeat in frozen beef burgers made by firms in Ireland and the UK, and sold by a number of UK supermarket chains, including Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl.
Equally candidly, many bosses admit that the crisis is giving them a chance to restructure their firms in ways that they should have done before, but found a hard sell when things were going well.
During the relatively modest downturn at the start of this decade, for example, many professional-services firms cut too deeply, especially in their lower ranks, and found they were poorly positioned when strong growth resumed sooner than expected, says Heidi Gardner of Harvard Business School.
Retail investors who were saddled with Facebook shares they didn't want, or who found themselves unable to sell when the price began to slide, must negotiate claims with their brokerage firms.
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