CHINA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Ting Liu, Fang Pan and Xiangru Chen King & Wood Mallesons
King & Wood Mallesons is a leading law firm with exceptional legal expertise and depth of knowledge. The firm provides comprehensive one-stop-shop le - gal solutions to clients in China as well as interna - tionally. The labour and employment department has seven partners and more than 20 attorneys and assis - tants based in Beijing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, Guang - zhou, Suzhou, Hangzhou and Haikou, which enables them to quickly and effectively resolve labour law is - sues across Mainland China. The firm has provided
legal services to more than 300 Fortune 500 com - panies, multinational companies, large state-owned enterprises and well-known domestic enterprises. Its extensive experience in handling both adversarial and non-adversarial matters as well as direct partici - pation in legislation facilitates a deep and accurate understanding of the complicated and rapid changes in PRC labour and employment laws and policies, as well as the latest HR, management and employment issues. strong experience and has provided legal services for foreign and domestic corporations on many internal investigation cases. A trade secret investigation led by Ms Pan was selected as a typical case in 2021 issued by the Guangdong High People’s Court. She also has extensive experience in employment, providing legal services for many large multinational corporations and state-owned enterprises. Ms Pan is recognised as a “Special Recommended Lawyer in Employment” by a legal rankings organisation.
Authors
Ting Liu is a partner at King & Wood Mallesons, specialising in corporate compliance and employment law. She has extensive experience in internal compliance investigations for multinational enterprises, crisis
management and governmental investigations. She also specialises in establishing compliance systems and advising on matters such as advertising, anti-corruption, anti-commercial bribery, environmental protection and food safety, etc. Ms Liu is experienced in handling labour and employment matters, including employee settlements, lay-offs and mass incidents in mergers and acquisitions, organisational restructurings, and reform of state-owned enterprises. She also represents clients in labour arbitration, litigation, class actions and collective bargaining with labour unions.
Xiangru Chen is an associate at King & Wood Mallesons. Ms Chen specialises in internal investigations and employment law. She has assisted partners in handling internal investigations related to non-compete
agreements, trade secrets, etc, and is familiar with the procedures of internal investigations. In addition, Ms Chen has assisted many well-known companies in labour disputes and has been involved in various non-litigation matters, such as screening labour compliance risks, drafting employment documents, and providing legal services related to dismissal of employees.
Fang Pan is a partner at King & Wood Mallesons and specialises in internal investigations, employment, corporate compliance programmes, cybersecurity and data compliance, and dispute resolution. She has very
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