Vivien Chan & Co.

Our China Offices are staffed with PRC lawyers who have been in the civil service, private practice and in-house corporate counsels. They and our Hong Kong group are proficient in Chinese and English with the ability to speak various dialects. Our team has a thorough understanding of Chinese business culture, bureaucratic practices and the language of the law in China. We help clients surmount the classic obstacles of:-

retroactive legislation
disregard to laws in particular, at the sub-national level, due to local protectionism
conflict of interest and lack of transparency of laws (the many "grey" and well practiced means to circumvent them, necessary to evaluate them but may not be advisable to adopt them in the absence of "blessings" or clearance.)

Our Beijing and Shanghai offices give access to regulations, notices often internally circulated within the bureaucracy, being promulgated by Chinese ministries and provincial authorities.