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Henry L.T. Chen
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Henry Chen is a partner of MWE China Law Offices based in Shanghai.
In addition to his international experience at several global law firms, Henry has practiced for more than 10 years with domestic law firms. From 2002 to 2006, Henry pursued his education in the United States with the New York University School of Law and the University of Washington School of Law.
During his legal career, Henry has handled many significant cases and projects for both international and domestic clients in the areas of international arbitration, domestic litigation, compliance with the Chinese Anti-Monopoly Law, anti-trust filings, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) investigations and auditing, risk management under anti-commercial bribery laws and other corporate services.
Henry speaks and publishes frequently on legal issues concerning China law, Chinese regulatory governmental affairs and international and domestic dispute resolution regimes. His latest book, Risk Management on Commercial Bribery in China, is set to be published in the near future.
Henry is a member of the New York State Bar Association and the All China Lawyers Association.
Representative Transactions
- Provided legal opinions to the WFOE of a major non-Chinese manufacturer of retail banking equipment on its compliance issues with Chinese anti-bribery laws
- Provided legal opinions to the WFOE of a major US trading company on its compliance issues regarding FCPA and Chinese anti-bribery laws
- Represented a major joint venture company in an administrative hearing for its compliance issues regarding foreign exchange laws at the State Administration for Foreign Exchange
- Successfully advised one of the big four international accounting firms to have its dispute with a Chinese publicly-listed company arbitrated in CIETAC
- Successfully advised one of the largest international hotel management companies in its dispute with a hotel under its management, arbitrated in the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center
- Successfully acted for a Chinese company to have its joint venture disputes with a German company arbitrated in Zurich under the auspices of the International Chamber of Commerce
- Successfully advised a major Italian cruise operator to have its disputes arbitrated by the Shanghai Arbitration Commission
- Successfully advised one of the largest investment companies in Australia to resolve disputes related to its investment projects in China
- Successfully advised a leading Chinese telecommunications company in resolving one of its “China-China-Foreign” joint venture disputes with its joint venture partners
- Successfully acted for a Chinese company to have its contractual disputes with a software company arbitrated in the Beijing Arbitration Commission
- Successfully acted for a major Israeli-invested company to have its joint venture dispute resolved in Chinese Courts
- Successfully acted for a major American pharmaceutical company in the process of a commercial bribery investigation initiated by a local government agency in China
- Successfully acted for a major American manufacturer of computer inspection and measurement systems, on its anti-monopoly filing with the Ministry of Commerce and SAIC
- Successfully advised one of the world’s largest manufacturers of steel products on its anti-monopoly report filing with the Ministry of Commerce and SAIC
- Successfully acted for one of the world’s largest steel products manufacturers to conduct due diligence investigations on a Chinese manufacturer of steel products
- Successfully acted for a major Swedish company to conduct due diligence investigations for acquisition of assets of a Chinese company
- Successfully acted for a major Australian company to establish a joint venture in China to produce steel products
- Successfully advised a major American company producing power tools in restructuring its joint venture companies in China
- Successfully advised a major German compressor manufacturer in restructuring its joint venture companies in China
- Successfully acted for a Hong Kong company to sell its equity shares and assets in a Chinese company to a major German manufacturer of automobile components
- Successfully acted for a major German company producing automobile components to change its joint venture structure and total investment in Suzhou
- Successfully advised a leading Chinese securities company to set up a joint venture company with a leading US securities company
- Successfully advised a leading Chinese securities company to set up a joint venture company with a leading Belgian securities company
- Successfully advised a Chinese project company to establish a waste-to-energy power plant in Beijing
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