Zhong Lun

Ms. Duan joined Zhong Lun as a partner in April 2013. Her main practice areas include employment law, social security law and trade union law. Ms. Duan has been providing professional services regarding labour and employment law for over 18 years, and she is experienced in both advisory services and labour dispute resolutions. Ms. Duan’s service covers a full range of employment law practice, including, without limitation, representing clients in labour dispute arbitration and litigation; reviewing and revising HR documents; designing and establishing employee transfer/placement and compensation plans in employers’ IPO, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, winding-up, bankruptcy and registration/cancellation of enterprises, and assisting and guiding employers to implement such plans; formulating downsizing plans; conducting employment/HR due diligence and assessing labour costs under all types of investment strategies; assisting and guiding employers to establish trade union and employees congress; and representing clients in collective bargaining.

Ms. Duan has developed a comprehensive knowledge and deep understanding of the legislation, enforcement and application of P.R.C. labour laws and regulations. She participates in relevant legislation and thereby keeps up with legislative trends, aware of first-hand information, and accurately grasps the legislative spirit and purposes. Therefore, she can predict legal risks under different economic environments and employment policies, formulate the most effective solutions for clients by taking existing laws and legislative trends into account. Moreover, she has solid industry knowledge in legal areas of securities and asset disposal (including equity investment, fund set-up, IPO, listed companies’ refinancing and M&A), and in light of characteristics of different modes of asset disposal and capital operation, she provides clients with feasible and tailored employment plans and outplacement plans.

Anderson has worked for a number of highly regarded Chinese law firms where he gains considerable experience in advising on PRC employment and industrial relations issues. Anderson is an expert in both litigation and non-litigation matters in the field of employment law and human resource management. He is also a key member of the Employment Law Committee of the Shanghai Bar Association.

Anderson practices primarily within employment and industrial relations. He has extensive experience in advising multinational corporations on the negotiations of collective agreements, with trade unions and on all employment law aspects in M&A transactions. Anderson also assists clients in emergency and crisis response. He regularly provides counsel to employers during corporate restructuring and advises them on the proper application of dismissal and termination clauses. In addition, Anderson advises employers during restructures and liquidation proceedings on the development and implementation of various human resources documents. Since promulgation of the new policy on collection of social security premium, Anderson’s team has provided legal service for many domestic listed companies and big MNCs in terms of social security audit and analysis, and the subsequent corrective actions for many times. Anderson is expert in coaching PRC employment law issues for multinational corporations.

Prior to joining Zhong Lun Law Firm in February 2019, Anderson was with Dentons’ Shanghai Office from 2008 till 2018. He was promoted as a partner of Dentons in January 2010 and headed the Employment and Human Resources Committee of Dentons China before his departure. Anderson is now a Partner of Zhong Lun Law Firm based in Shanghai office.

Carol Zhu’s practice focuses on all aspects of labour and employment-related matters, including establishment and enforcement of company policies, HR documentation, hiring and termination, employee compensation and benefits, mass redundancies, labour dispatch and transition, cross-border employment issues, labour dispute resolution, employee transition issues in mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, trade union matters, collective bargaining, global mobility and immigration, investigation into employment related misconducts and training, as well as due diligence of HR compliance. Before beginning her law firm practice, Carol accumulated more than ten years of experience working as head of HR in Asia and China for several international companies, where she handled HR and employee relations for companies employing thousands of workers.