Below, we hear from consultants at AlixPartners including Veit Buetterlin, Managing Director, Colum Bancroft, Managing Director, Lian Hoon Lim Managing Director and Jiayan Xu, Senior Vice President. They share four golden rules to help General Counsel resolve the challenges their organisation may be facing in their China operations. 

Since the first COVID cases hit the news, China has taken rigorous measures. Travel restrictions and quarantine requirements have restricted foreign businesspeople from visiting their China operations and complicated expat assignments. At the same time, the local market environment is more challenging, with slowed growth, disruption in the supply chain, and geopolitical uncertainties. Under these circumstances, we have seen overseas head offices and shareholders facing the following issues in their China operations: