The labour and employment department at AnJie Broad Law Firm comprises experts in labour disputes, human resources-related documentation, and M&A, reorganisation and liquidation-related terminations. Other key areas are union issues, trade secret protection, non-compete schemes and compliance, along with equity incentive plans, anti-corruption, investigations, and workplace-related personal information protection and privacy. Zhenghe Liu is ‘very familiar with China’s labour laws, trade union legislation and related judicial practices’; Jun Shen handles large-scale employment projects involving employee groups; Lin Sun assists with complex HR management issues; and Yana Cui routinely acts in high-stakes disputes. The second line of experienced practitioners features employment and social specialist Xiaochen He (promoted to partner in March 2024), along with employment law practitioners Siyin Chen and Ming Li.

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Testimonials

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  • ’In-depth insight and research in labour law and willingness to invest time in summarising and analysing.’

  • ‘The results of their labour cases satisfy clients.’

  • ‘Zhenghe Liu is very familiar with China's labour laws, trade union legislation and related judicial practices.’

  • ‘Zhenghe Liu provides legal and practical opinions based on the needs of clients and responds to clients' urgent time requirements.’

Key clients

  • CitiBank
  • Standard Charted Bank
  • Nokia China
  • Philips China
  • Siemens China
  • SAP China
  • Swiss Re China
  • DHL China
  • Universal Beijing Parks & Resorts
  • Nestlé

Work highlights

  • Advising a communications joint venture on various day-to-day employment matters, including labour disputes throughout China.
  • Assisted a manufacturing giant with its layoff project in China.
  • Advising DHL China on various day-to-day employment matters, including disputes against former employees.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Zhenghe Liu, Jun Shen

Other key lawyers

Yana Cui, Lin Sun, Xiaochen He, Siyin Chen, Ming Li