Advisory
Zhao Jing
Customs Law
Customs IP Protection
International Trade Disputes
Ms. Jing Zhao has been a Chinese customs lawyer for over a decade - first as a customs officer and legal counsel at the China General Administration of Customs (GACC), followed by a customs consulting career in private practice with Beijing Henderson - a Chinese customs law consulting firm.
Ms. Zhao joined a major Beijing based PRC law firm in 2014 and is now one of the office managing partners with the firm.
Ms. Zhao's practice focuses on advising clients on negotiations with the GACC and its local branches on issues relating to customs duties, classifications, pricing and clearances; customs compliance risk assessment and management; customs auditing, seizure and other Chinese customs enforcement actions - both administrative and criminal; customs IP protection and enforcement; as well as international trade disputes.
Ms. Zhao has successfully advised many major Chinese domestic and international companies including: Shanghai GM, BMW Brilliance, Nike, French Veolia Water Technologies, Diebold Financial Equipment, Siemens, LG and Digital China on their customs matters.
Ms. Zhao is also routinely engaged by the GACC's Beijing Customs Headquarters, the Shanghai Customs Office, the Suzhou Customs Office, as well as other GACC branches, to act as their independent 3rd party expert consultant in some of the GACC customs compliance audits on import export and international trading companies in China.
Jing Zhao is a graduate of the China University of Politics and Law (LLB in Law, 1999) and holds the PRC Bar Qualification since 2000.
Zhang Guodong
Anti-trust
Auto Industry
Construction & Real Estate Industries
Industrial Equipment Manufacturing & Distribution
Japan Practice
Mr. Mr. Zhang Guodong has been practicing law in China since 2001 - both as a senior partner at a leading Chinese law firm based in Beijing, and as an outside legal counsel to companies in varieties of industries that operate in China.
Mr. Zhang specializes in advising industry clients on antitrust and other regulatory compliance approvals and enforcement actions including: M&A deal structuring and merger clearance; all aspects of antitrust and anti-unfair competition compliance involved in business models, distribution channeling and pricing practices; compliance policies and procedure formation, in-house training and audits; as well as anti-monopoly and anti-unfair competition government enforcement actions and hearings.
Mr. Zhang also specializes in corporate and commercial laws and routinely advises clients on matters relating to anti-commercial bribery, customs, foreign exchange control, as well as labor and employment. As one of the leading experts on corporate, commercial and international investment laws in China, Mr. Zhang counts as his clients some of the major companies in the world who benefit not only from his in-depth knowledge of the nuances of PRC laws and regulations, but more importantly, also of the policy mandates behind. As a result, clients get truly practical and pragmatic advices and solutions from Mr. Zhang' counseling.
Mr. Zhang also represents clients in court hearings and arbitrations involving corporate, investments, commercial transactions, product liability and intellectual property rights disputes.
Mr. Zhang has been advising clients in a broad spectrum of industries including: automobile; medical; finance and Insurance; shipbuilding; mining and metallurgy; industrial equipment manufacturing, supply and distribution; infra-structure; real estate and construction; logistics and many other business operations.
Mr. Zhang is a graduate of China University of Politics and Law (LLB, Law) and Japan Keio University (Master in Law). He has the PRC Bar Qualification since 2001.
Other than Chinese, Mr. Zhang is fluent in Japanese and works in English as well.
Jean Yang
IP Litigation
Commercial Litigation
Ms. Yang has been practicing law in China for over 20 years, both as a senior partner at a leading Chinese law firm and as an outside General Counsel for many leading companies operating in China.
Jean's practice focus on IP, finance, real estate, corporate, foreign direct investment in China, involving both litigation and commercial transactions She has successfully represented many major Chinese domestic and multinational companies in trademark and copy right infringement, patent and trade secret litigations, and contract disputes.
With such successful and precedent-setting cases in China under her name including: Starbucks vs. Xinbake; Nike vs. Adidas & Zhengzhi, Yaqing vs. Coco-Cola, 20th Century Fox vs. Fengxing, Bloomberg vs. Great Wisdom and many other complex litigations in which she acted as the lead counsel for major multinational companies, Ms. Yang has established herself as one of the top litigation lawyers in China.
Jean also specializes in advising multinational companies in China as their outside General Counsel. For many of her clients, she focuses especially on their IP strategies in China including patents, trademarks and copyrights protection and related litigations.
Jean is actively involved with the Shanghai government organizations and is an elected member of the Shanghai Xuhui District Council of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Committee.
Jean also served as the executive director of the Shanghai IPR Association. She is a regular contributor for "Shanghai Watch" of the "International Business Law" magazine and the "Legal Practice Live Express from Shanghai" column for Search-China, a Sino-Japan business web-site. Jean is is also a regular speaker at many legal and business forums in the region.
Jean is a graduate of East China College of Politics and Law (LLB Law, 1990) and Shanghai University (Foreign Trade English, 1995). She holds the PRC Bar Qualification since 1990.
Yingping Wu
Labor & Employment Law
Labor Arbitartion
Litigation
Ms. Wu Yingping is a a leading employment lawyer in China and founding partner at a Beijing based law firm that specializes in labor and employment law.
For over 20 years, Ms. Wu’s practice has focused on advising major Chinese companies and Fortune 500 Companies on labor and employment matters including HR management, labor contracts, company employee handbook, code of conducts and policies formation; company down-sizing and employee lay-off planning and execution; negotiations and mediation of labor disputes; labor arbitration and litigation.
Ms. Wu has successfully advised many major Chinese domestic and international companies including: Daimler AG, GE China, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Nike China, ABB, China Vantone Real Estate Ltd. and many others on their labor and employment matters.
Ms. Wu is also routinely engaged by clients, as well as the China’s primary Chinese HR services organizations, FESCO and CIIC, to provide labor and employment law trainings.
Ms. Wu is an executive director at China Labor Association, consultant at the China Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security’s Research Center, and an adjunct professor at China Renmin University Law School and Peking University’s HR Executive Center.
Ms. Wu is a graduate of the Peking University Law School (Master in Law) and holds the PRC Bar Qualification since 1989.
