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Erica ChangPartner

Capital Markets Investment and M&A Corporate Operation Government & Public Affairs Compliance Healthcare & Life Science Civil & Commercial Dispute Resolution
LL.M. 86-21-52433089 86-21-52433323 Shanghai | New York |
Practice AreasPractice Areas

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.

Professional ExperienceProfessional

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.

Awards & RecognitionsAwards & Recognitions

China's elite 100 lawyers, China Business Law Journal the A-List of China's legal profession, 2019

work experienceexperience

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

Educationeducation

New York University, LL.M.

Professional AffiliationsProfessional Affiliations

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

Other Titles & PositionsOther Titles & Positions

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

Qualificationqualifications

The Securities Lawyer Qualification, issued by the Ministry of Justice of PRC and the China Securities Regulatory Commission

Languageslanguage

Chinese & English