Hui Ye Law Firm is recommended by clients for its ‘professionalism, efficiency, precision, rigour, and sincerity’. The employment law team is noted particularly for its skill in handling contentious matters – including serious disciplinary infractions by employees – and also demonstrates capability in handling team moves following mergers. The team is jointly led by the experienced trio of Kaichang Zhou, Guibin Hong and Yunhua Cai, who support a high profile client base containing the likes of AIA Insurance, PepsiCo and the Bank of China.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Hui Ye's labour law team is one of the most professional in China.'

  • ‘The legal services provided by Zhou Kaichang's lawyer team present the characteristics of professionalism, efficiency, precision, rigour, and sincerity.'

  • ‘Hui ye's labour law team is excellent in handling complex matters. For major and difficult projects and events, the labour law team can take a comprehensive view, plan strategies, find breakthrough points in problems, and help our company collect and fix relevant evidence to form a complete chain of evidence. This guarantees the best interests of our company in the adjudication.’

  • ‘As a long-term partner of Zhou Kaichang's team, I think they are very professional, rigorous and responsible.' 

  • ‘Zhou Kaichang’s team are very professional and experienced in the labour law field. We can safely entrust them with any difficult or sudden problems, and they can achieve or even exceed our expectations.’

  • ‘The cooperation process and results are very pleasant.’

  • ‘We have high trust and appreciation for the professionalism of Hui ye Guangzhou Law Firm, and Huiye has demonstrated in-depth industry insight into the field of labour and human resources law.’

  • ‘Rigorous legal logic and creativity when solving problems, and their in-depth knowledge of the labour and human resources field enables them to propose feasible solutions.’

Key clients

  • Alipay
  • PepsiCo
  • SF Express
  • Bank of China Limited (Shanghai)
  • AIA Life Insurance Co., Ltd.
  • Bridgestone
  • Vanke
  • Dongfeng Motor Corporation
  • Hitachi Elevator (China) Co.,Ltd.
  • Stellantis Group

Work highlights

  • Acted for Stellantis Group in China in matters after the merger of Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and PSA Group, dealing with personnel integration issues.
  • Representing the Bank of China in a labour dispute case concerning serious violation of discipline by an employee.
  • Represented Car-O-Liner (Beijing) Co., Ltd in the arbitration, first trial and second trial stages of a case against an employee over the terms of a termination agreement.

Lawyers

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Kaichang Zhou, Guibin Hong, Yunhua Cai

Other key lawyers

Aiyu Yuan, Wenwen Zhu