In the era of Tariffs 2.0, how can overseas expansion enterprises avoid legal compliance risks? | Overseas Expansion Practical Training Camp

The China Enterprises International Service Center will host a special session on legal compliance for the "Overseas Expansion Practical Training Camp". In collaboration with Fangda Partners, a top law firm in China, it will focus on key issues in overseas investment for enterprises, such as the reconstruction of overseas supply chains and joint-venture and acquisition transactions, to help enterprises successfully expand overseas.

Event Time: 14:00 - 16:30, May 16, 2025

Event Venue: China Enterprises International Service Center - Roadshow Hall (2nd Floor)

           (Building 2, Wisdom Valley, Yipeng Street, Qiantang District, Hangzhou)

Target Audience: Legal compliance departments of overseas expansion enterprises, international business departments/overseas investment departments of overseas expansion enterprises, and enterprises that expect to have a deeper understanding of cross-border legal compliance risks.

In 2025, as Trump returns to the White House and initiates more aggressive trade protection policies, the costs of overseas trade, global supply chains, and legal compliance risks have skyrocketed. Pressure to relocate supply chains, reshaping of cross-border e-commerce rules, risks in equity structures, pitfalls in document terms, blind spots in national policies... How can enterprises maintain resilience in the face of turmoil?

To help overseas expansion enterprises address the above pain points, on May 16, the second phase of the "Overseas Expansion Practical Training Camp" of the China Enterprises International Service Center, in collaboration with Fangda Partners, will launch a special session on legal compliance - In the Tariff 2.0 era, how can overseas expansion enterprises avoid legal compliance risks?

Partners from Fangda Partners will decode many key issues in overseas investment based on practical cases of enterprise overseas expansion: How can enterprises conduct accurate and effective preliminary due diligence for different overseas destinations? How can enterprises design a tax-friendly and "aggressive when advancing, defensive when retreating" equity structure to reduce the costs of overseas trade? How can enterprises avoid legal compliance risks during the overseas expansion process, coordinate the core terms of transaction documents, and advance transaction steps?

Founded in 1993, Fangda Partners is an integrated comprehensive law firm providing legal services in Chinese law and the laws of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of China. It has offices in Beijing, Guangzhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen, and Singapore, with a total of approximately 800 lawyers. It provides legal services for large multinational corporations, global financial institutions, many leading Chinese enterprises, and rapidly growing technology companies. It has rich practical experience and professional resources in overseas expansion and is good at providing more targeted, high-quality, and cost-effective overseas legal services.

Two partners from Fangda Partners have been specially invited to this event:

Xue Feng

A partner in the Shanghai office of Fangda Partners, his main practice areas include mergers and acquisitions, private equity investment and financing, joint-venture transactions, cross-border reorganizations, and foreign investment. Lawyer Xue is good at designing appropriate transaction plans and structures based on the business needs of industrial clients. Some of the acquisition transactions he has handled in the past have also won annual transaction awards from international professional legal rating agencies.

Bu Rui

A partner in the Beijing and Hong Kong offices of Fangda Partners, he graduated from East China University of Political Science and Law and the University of Georgia in the United States. He has worked in several well-known law firms, including Winston & Strawn LLP, Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP, and DLA Piper LLP. He is mainly good at mergers and acquisitions, private equity financing, Sino-foreign joint ventures, overseas investment, and foreign direct investment.

Event Schedule

13:30 - 14:00 Check-in

14:00 - 14:10 Event Kick-off

Lian Dupeng, the person in charge of the China Enterprises International Service Center

14:10 - 16:10  Thematic Presentation

Part 1 14:10 - 15:10

"Reconstruction and Optimization of Supply Chains in the Trump 2.0 Era"

• Analysis of the new global landscape in the Trump 2.0 era

• Major supply chain risks and countermeasures for Chinese enterprises in the new global landscape

• Main methods and key points of concern for supply chain reconstruction

Part 2 15:10 - 16:10

"Practical Sharing of Overseas Joint-Venture and Acquisition Transactions"

• Analysis of the design of overseas equity transaction structures

• Interpretation of the core terms of overseas joint-venture and equity participation transactions

• Introduction to the steps of overseas equity transactions and key points for attention

• Explanation of identifying pitfalls in preliminary national due diligence

16:10 - 16:30 Post-event Communication

*The event agenda is subject to the actual on-site schedule.

Registration is Welcome

Enterprise representatives who are interested in participating in the event

Please fill out the registration questionnaire before 0:00 on May 16, 2025

You can participate only after receiving a formal invitation email from the organizer.

This article is from the WeChat official account "Hangzhou Qiantang Enterprise Overseas Expansion Service Base". The author is Qiantang Overseas Expansion. It is published with authorization from Qiantang.