How to Enforce IP on Taobao and Tmall

6 April 2022
Taobao and Tmall (both part of the Alibaba Group) are two of China’s most popular online market places, not only for brands but also for counterfeiters.
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Sexual Harassment: Employer Responsibilities and Compliance in China

6 January 2022
In a recent case, a manager of e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holdings was accused of sexually assaulting a subordinate in August 2021. This case brought the issue of sexual harassment at the workplace into the Chinese public sphere. The police investigated and the manager was dismissed, but Alibaba also took this opportunity to announce the establishment of a "Working Environment Committee" as decision-making body for work-related matters including sexual harassment.
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性骚扰问题中雇主责任分析及合规建议

10 November 2021
电子商务巨头阿里巴巴集团控股公司（以下简称“阿里”）一名经理被控性侵一名同事的事件，在今年8月将国内工作环境中的性骚扰问题推向公众视野。
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A Practical Take on China’s New Personal Information Protection Law

For over a decade, we have written client alerts on data privacy in China starting with the sentence: China does not have a comprehensive set of data privacy laws. Well that is finally no longer the case.
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China’s First Personal Information Protection Law

8 October 2021
The Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL) was passed in China on 20 August 2021 and will come into force from 1 November 2021. It is specified, among the rest, that automated decision-making methods to push information and direct commercial marketing to individuals shall provide options that are not specific to their personal characteristics or provide individuals with convenient means to refuse.
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Strategies for Reporting Criminal Cases as a Company

15 September 2021
Where an enterprise has preliminarily obtained the clues of potential criminal cases through internal investigation, and the enterprise considers that the offender should be held criminally liable, it can report the case in accordance with the following strategies:
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Expense Reimbursement Fraud — What Companies Can Learn from Unsuccessful Lawsuits

6 September 2021
Expense reimbursement fraud goes against the principle of integrity. They are a kind of fraud that harms corporate interests and benefits. Therefore, when companies discover an employee involved in such fraud, they tend to terminate the labor re1ationship with, for reason of material breach of corporate policies. However, as we found in practice, companies are still losing their lawsuits and have to make compensation for their employment termination, even though they have proved the employee’s engagement in expense reimbursement fraud.
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虚假报销 ——公司应从败诉案件中获得的启示

6 September 2021
员工虚假报销是违背诚信原则的行为，是欺诈公司、损害公司利益的行为。因此，许多公司在发现员工存在虚假报销的行为后，选择以虚假报销严重违反公司规章制度为由解除与员工的劳动合同。但是，我们发现在实践中，仍存在许多公司败诉的案例，尽管员工存在虚假报销行为，公司仍被认定为违法解除，需要支付违法解除赔偿金。
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Why a “Tax Health Check” is important in China

1 September 2021
The official launch of the Golden Tax System Phase IV, an upgraded version of the Golden Tax System Phase III, is about to be implemented in China. The new system will not only monitor the business process of the taxation system as its former version did, but it will also monitor “non-tax” business. This means that in the near future, the Chinese tax authorities will achieve the transition from “tax management by invoices“ to “tax management by numbers”.
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China Reduces Penalties on Certain Tax Violations

4 August 2021
In the Announcement of the State Taxation Administration [2021] No. 6 issued on 31 March, China’s tax office tried to make the country’s tax system a little friendlier. As part of the 2021 "Spring Wind Campaign - Making Tax Easy for Taxpayers" and following initiatives of the State Council (China’s chief administrative authority), the new rules introduce a list of tax offenses which will be exempt from administrative penalties if:
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