Erica's current areas of practice include cross-border dispute resolution, general corporate, legal compliance (specialized in life science & healthcare, animal husbandry, chemical industry). international capital markets, foreign direct investment, domestic and cross-border M&A, post merger/acquisition integration and restructuring, and winding up business including massive redundancy.
Erica has extensive and hands-on experience in assisting foreign investment in China. She had served as General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer in Greater China or APAC region for a number of major MNCs in life science, chemical, industrial and technology industry. Erica understands how to work with a company's various constituencies, including management, directors and sales marketing team, not just as an attorney but also as a business partner. She appreciates the demands of the business, and has an innate ability to evaluate risk and quickly gives business advice. She offers high-quality legal expertise that is more flexible than a full-time in-house attorney and more cost effective as a local outside counsel.
Erica is a special one of a handful of practitioners in China who has grown her expertise in legal compliance area with deep understanding of multi-national companies, with focus on the life science and healthcare sector, which is highly regulated and extremely challenging in China. She had been committed to the construction of enterprise compliance management systems for a long time, and is adept at anti-commercial bribery compliance affairs for foreign companies in China, compliance investigations, risk management, crisis management, etc., for example, she deeply participated in the compliance investigation carried out by the U.S. SEC against a foreign-invested pharmaceutical enterprise in China in respect of violation of the FCPA, helped foreign-invested enterprises in China to rebuild the compliance order, and implement the compliance requirements imposed by the overseas headquarters on their enterprises in China in accordance with PRC laws, regulations and practices. In recent years, with the trend of Chinese companies have become more self-disciplined in compliance, and Chinese companies go global to meet the needs of international rules, Erica has provided Chinese companies with comprehensive opinions and rectification plans on corporate compliance issues, and to assist enterprises in specific implementation, based on her professional practice experience in fulfilling legal compliance management responsibilities in European and AmXun multinational enterprises, thus, it helps Chinese companies to operate in a standardized way for a long run, and develop in accordance with national conditions.
In her years with US law firm and recent practice, Erica has assisted numerous top Chinese companies on international business transactions involving general corporate, technology licensing or transfer, M&A, regulatory, labor and employment, legal compliance, and dispute resolution in America, Europe, Mid East and APAC.
China's elite 100 lawyers, China Business Law Journal the A-List of China's legal profession, 2019
Grandall Law Firm (Shanghai), Partner; Grandall Law Firm New York Office, Managing Partner
General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for APAC and China for a number of MNCs (mainly in the pharmaceutical and chemical industries)
Thacher Proffitt & Wood, Co-Chair of China Practice Group
New York University, LL.M.
Member of Foreign Affairs Committee of Shanghai Bar Association
Member of International Law Committee of Shanghai Bar Association
Member of Lawyers Specially Handling Foreign-Related Matters Talent Pool in Shanghai
Lawyer Expert in Civil Administrative Cases in the National Unified Expert Pool under the Supreme People's Procuratorate
External Tutor for Postgraduates of Shanghai University of Political Science, LL.M. program designed for lawyers specially handling foreign-related matters
The Securities Lawyer Qualification, issued by the Ministry of Justice of PRC and the China Securities Regulatory Commission
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