The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China is delighted to invite you to a seminar on Understanding Trade and State Secrets, on Friday 10th September at Sofitel Hyland Hotel.
Foreign companies doing business in China consistently endeavour to ensure that they fully comply with PRC laws in all their business activities. However, the laws surrounding State and Commercial Secrets are often vague and broad, creating challenges for foreign companies to comply.
Recently the Chinese government has been stepping up to fight corruption and not long ago State-Owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission (SASAC) revised the ‘PRC Law on Protection of State Secrets’ governing the protection of State Secrets.
Join us at this seminar where our two speakers will discuss how to handle practices in grey areas of Trade and State Secrets from different perspectives.
The Speakers
Kenneth Jarrett, Vice Chair Greater China, APCO Worldwide Inc.
Alan Wang, Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
Alan Wang is a partner based in the Freshfields Shanghai office and has broad experience in cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity, China-related inbound and outbound investments, corporate restructuring and financial services. He has been with the firm’s China business group since 1998 and has also worked in the Beijing and London offices. He became a partner in 2007.
Alan obtained bachelor degrees with honours in both law and economics from the Australian National University. He also holds a Master of Laws degree from Harvard Law School. He is admitted in the State of New York and the State of New South Wales. He speaks fluent English and Mandarin.
Kenneth Jarrett, Vice Chairman for Greater China of APCO Worldwide, was Consul General of the United States in Shanghai from June 2005 until August 2008. Previously he served as Deputy Consul General in Hong Kong, and as Director of Asian Affairs in the National Security Council, The White House, Washington, DC.
During his twenty-six year career in the U.S. Foreign Service, Mr. Jarrett also served as vice consul at the U.S. embassy in Manila; political officer at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York; political officer in the State Department’s office of Chinese and Mongolian affairs; consul at the U.S. Consulate General in Chengdu; chief of the political unit at the U.S. embassy in Singapore; political officer in the State Department’s office of Israeli affairs, and deputy political counselor at the U.S. embassy in Beijing. Mr. Jarrett is a 1975 graduate of Cornell University and holds MA’s from Yale University and the National War College. He also studied at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center at Nanjing University in 1989, Chinese University in Hong Kong and the Taipei Language Institute. Prior to working for the U.S. government, he was an English teacher at the Shanghai Foreign Languages Institute from 1979-1981.
The Agenda
08.00 - 08.30 : Registration
08.30 - 08.35 : Introduction from EUCCC
08.35 - 09.30 : Presentations from Mr. Jarrett and Mr. Wang
09.30 - 10.00 : Q&A
Terms and Conditions
To register for this event please register online by 18:00pm Thursday 9th September. Please note that we will send you a registration confirmation. We require 24 hours notice for cancellations, no-shows who fail to cancel before this time will be invoiced for the event. Registrations done after the deadline will be accepted only if space permits and are charged an additional 50 RMB walk-in fee. For any further enquiries or registration, please contact us at sgoodfellow@euccc.com.cn.
Please note that registration starts at 08:00 and the seminar starts at 08:30. Fees will be collected in cash at the entrance.
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