Corporate Compliance

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Practice Overview

In response to the legal service needs of Chinese enterprises, more than 60 lawyers from W&H organized the "Corporate Compliance Research Center" to start the basic research, industry communication and service practice for the lawyers in corporate compliance and criminal compliance in China.

W&H's lawyers actively carry out compliance research and industry exchanges, and have published a great number of articles such as How to Build Effective Compliance Management for Enterprises in the Context of "The Belt and Road" Initiative, On the Influence of the UK Bribery Act on the Establishment of Anti-bribery Compliance Management System for Enterprises Overseas, How to Strengthen the Driving Force for Compliance Construction of Chinese Enterprises, Compliance Risks and Prevention of Chinese Enterprises in,"Belt and Road" Infrastructure PPP Projects, Study on Compliance Issues Related to Private Enterprises' Direct Investment in Australian Farms in Chinese Mainland, On the Role of Lawyers and Business Prospects in the Context of Criminal Compliance, etc. Some of them were published in the China Lawyer (http://www.acla.org.cn/home/toPage) and the official media of Beijing Lawyers Association. The paper Corporate Compliance Management and Lawyers' Legal Service Innovation won the second prize of the 2019 Company Law Practice Forum of the Company Committee of the All China Lawyers Association.

W&H serves Chinese enterprises with standardized business processes, proposes the concept of "integration of business and compliance management", creates software products that integrate risk control and business management, forms a compliance risk information database, and builds a set of practical compliance management system with distinctive enterprise characteristics, which promotes enterprises to operate in accordance with laws and regulations and to develop in a high-quality development. W&H lawyers create various legal service products for enterprise compliance such as Data Compliance Solution in the Background of Digital Economy, Legal Service for Import and Export Enterprises on Customs and Trade Compliance, Special Legal Service for Enterprise Confidentiality Compliance, Compliance and Business Management Integration System, Compliance Legal Product for Enterprises Involved in the Crime of Fraudulently Issuing Value-added Tax Special Purpose Invoice, Legal Product for Compliance Management of Construction Enterprises, Legal Service for the Construction of Customized System, and Legal Service for Enterprise Compliance, Legal Services for Customized System Construction of Enterprise Compliance, Scenario-based Compliance Guidelines for Collection of Personal Information by Mobile Application Programs (APP), etc. W&H aims to provide professional and standardized compliance services for enterprises.

Business Range

Corporate compliance management system development
- Assist enterprises in formulating compliance management strategy and compliance policy, carrying out compliance risk management in key areas, establishing compliance management operating mechanism and safeguard mechanisms to ensure enterprises operate lawfully and compliantly, and maintain sustainable and steady operations.
Special Compliance Management
- Special compliance management in key business areas and functional management areas, including corporate governance, executive compliance, product research and development and new product launch, manufacturing, procurement, marketing, financial and taxation, investment and financing, employment and personnel, overseas investment and operation, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, etc.
- Special compliance management in key legal areas, including antitrust and unfair competition, cybersecurity and data protection, intellectual property, customs and international trade, construction engineering, export control, environmental protection and safety, trust funds and financial leasing, anti-corruption, etc.
Compliance Training
- Provide enterprises with compliance training, including basic compliance concept training and compliance management personnel capability enhancement training.

Major Achievements

01

Specialized service project for the internal control and compliance system construction outsourcing consulting project of Inner Mongolia Power (Group) Co., Ltd.
02

Specialized legal services for state-owned asset supervision and compliance of Tianjin Energy Group Co., Ltd.
03

Compliance management system construction consulting project for seven companies under Beijing Subway Group
04

Compliance management supervision closed-loop system construction service project for China National Building Material Co., Ltd.
05

Comprehensive compliance system construction, specialized compliance review, and training services for China Orient Asset Management Co., Ltd.
06

Specialized service project for position compliance risk guidance of West-East Gas Pipeline Branch of China Petroleum Pipeline Co., Ltd.
07

Specialized training on corporate compliance system construction for China Hi-Tech Group
08

Special project on internal control of corporate criminal risks for Ping An Property Insurance Co., Ltd.
09

Special legal services for internal compliance system construction of a well-known Chinese Internet finance company
10

Special compliance service project for Volkswagen Financial Services (China) Co., Ltd. regarding whistleblower cases
11

Special service for reviewing and revising compliance policies and related regulations for the China operations of a Nasdaq-Listed Internet game development company
12

Special criminal compliance services for a Beijing information technology company (online trading platform)
13

Compliance case involving CETC (Ningbo) suspected of falsely issuing special value-added tax invoices, resulting in no case filed by public security authorities
14

Compliance review for Tianjin CAC CPA Limited Liability Partnership involved in a false confirmation letter case, achieving a non-filing outcome
15

Provided criminal compliance services for an Italian company’s employee under criminal investigation, including legal consultation and issuance of legal opinions
16

Assisted a Shenzhen innovation technology company in conducting criminal compliance checks and establishing a criminal compliance system
17

Provided criminal compliance services for multiple cases involving company employees falsely issuing special value-added tax invoices and ordinary invoices, with some cases resulting in non-prosecution by prosecutorial authorities
18

Conducted a compliance investigation into allegations of violations of the U.S. foreign corrupt practices act and falsification of financial records by the China sales team of a NYSE-listed information technology company
19

Conducted a compliance investigation into allegations of violations of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act involving bribery of employees of state-owned energy enterprises by the China business team of a prominent U.S. industrial information and communication technology company (Commissioned by U.S. Headquarters)

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