Helen WONG
Partner/Senior Lawyer

With nearly a decade of dedicated legal practice, she has built a distinguished profile advising clients on complex cross-border matters. She specializes in foreign investment and mergers & acquisitions, corporate governance, and international commercial dispute resolution. A significant part of her practice also focuses on the nuanced area of cross-border labor and employment law, providing comprehensive counsel to multinational corporations. Renowned for her strategic acumen and deep understanding of both Chinese and international legal frameworks, she is a trusted advisor to a diverse portfolio of clients navigating the complexities of operating across borders.

Areas of Expertise

  • foreign direct investment, M&A, corporate governance, international dispute resolution, labor & employment, divorce and inheritance

Working Language

  • English
  • Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)

Achievements

  • Helen has served clients from all over the world including, but not limited to, Europe, the United States, Australia, Israel, India, Thailand, and Hong Kong.
  • Helen has over 10 years of experience in providing legal services for international companies and foreign individuals for their business and personal issues in or with China.

Representative Cases

  • FOREIGN INVESTMENT/M&A
  • Provided a series of legal services to a well-known Indian budget hotel chain for its investment in Shenzhen, China, covering its pre-establishment, company establishment, compliance review, commercial contracts drafting, review and revision, and the establishment and operation of its online platform.
  • Provided a series of legal services to a major Portuguese football club for its joint venture project in China, including advice on foreign exchange, taxation and other corporate investment issues, negotiating with its joint venture partners, and reviewing relevant legal documents, including shareholders’ agreement.
  • Provided a series of services to a Canadian airline for its divestment from a Sino-foreign joint venture in Zhuhai, including due diligence, negotiation, advice on risk control, asset evaluations, equity transfers, etc. and drafting relevant legal documents.
  • Provided legal services to a Malaysia food chain and catering brand enterprise in relation to carrying out franchising business in China and setting up subsidiaries in China.
  • Provided legal services to a French company with a leading position in the waste sorting technology industry for its establishment of a wholly foreign owned enterprise in Guangzhou.
  • Provided whole-process services to a French company in its acquisition of a packaging equipment company in Guangzhou.
  • Advised an Indian agrochemical company in its establishment of a wholly foreign owned enterprise in China.
  • DISPUTE RESOLUTION(CONTENTIOUS)
  • Represented a well-known German electrical appliance company and its Hong Kong affiliate in a dispute with a well-known Guangdong electrical appliance manufacturer over a contract for international sales of goods, with a subject matter of around RMB 10 million.
  • Represented a French food trading company before CIETAC in a dispute over a contract for international sale of goods, with a subject matter of approximately RMB 4.5 million.
  • Represented a Shenzhen-based foreign-invested enterprise in a dispute with a Beijing-based company over a contract for the sale and purchase of goods, involving an amount of approximately RMB 4.3 million.
  • Represented a subsidiary of a Hong Kong-based environmental management company in various litigation cases in China, including a contractual dispute with a Guangzhou paper products company involving over RMB 3.4 million.
  • Represented an Australian multinational electrical appliance company in a dispute over an international contract for the sale and purchase of goods, involving over RMB 2 million.
  • Representing a large lighting company in Foshan in tort liability disputes with various enterprises and individuals in China involving over RMB 8 million.
  • Represented a Mauritius company in a dispute with a Zhuhai company over transfer of equity.
  • RETAINER/LONG-TERM SERVICES
  • an American cross-border payment institution
  • a well-known British oil company and its subsidiaries
  • a well-known Sino-foreign cooperative paper company in Huizhou
  • a well-known Hong Kong chain restaurant group
  • a well-known American plumbing equipment company and its Chinese subsidiary
  • a well-known Malaysian coffee company and its Chinese subsidiary
  • the world’s largest chewing gum manufacturer and seller and its Chinese subsidiaries
  • Israel’s largest furniture manufacturer and seller
  • an electronic limited company in Dongguan wholly owned by a well-known Italian electronics company
  • an Israeli-invested Shenzhen electronics company
  • a children’s product company in Shenzhen established by a multinational children’s product company
  • a large lighting equipment company in Foshan
  • a Guangzhou subsidiary of an international freight forwarding company
  • a USA software development company
  • an escalator company wholly owned by a well-known French escalator group company
  • LABOR & EMPLOYMENT
  • Provided a series of legal services for a German electronics company in laying off more than 150 employees in its China subsidiary, including plan development, documents drafting, on-site announcement, group negotiation and discharge, and termination of employees under special circumstances such as pregnancy.
  • Advised a French company in Guangzhou on laying off more than 80 employees at its subsidiary in China.
  • Provided a series of legal services for a Japanese shipping company in terminating a senior executive, including plan development, on-site negotiation, and follow-up.
  • Represented a subsidiary of a leading international hotel company in China in a labor contract dispute with one of its senior executives, involving around RMB 1.6 million.
  • Represented a British national in a labor contract dispute with a Guangzhou company.
  • Advised an Italian in a labor contract dispute with a foreign trade enterprise in Guangzhou.
  • Represented a paper products company in Huizhou in a labor contract dispute with a Hong Kong executive, involving around RMB 5.3 million.
  • Provided long-term labor and personnel legal counseling to certain international companies in China.
  • Advising and acting on behalf of a foreign invested company on their labor disputes with its former employees.
  • Advising some foreign-invested companies on their daily labor issues.
  • DIVORCE & INHERITANCE
  • Advised a foreign couple on their divorce in Guangzhou, Guangdong.
  • Advised a French national on his divorce from a Filipino national in Foshan, Guangdong.
  • Advised a Germany national in his divorce with a Chinese in Dongguan, Guangdong.
  • Provided a series of legal services to six Americans in their inheritance of three houses in Taishan, Guangdong.
  • Advised an American in the inheritance of a house in Guangzhou, Guangdong.
  • Advising some foreigners or oversea Chinese on their inheritance of houses and other properties in China.
  • Advising some foreigners on their divorces with Chinese and also some Chinese on their divorces with foreigners.