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Healthcare

Zhong Lun has been providing a full range of legal services to various types of clients in the healthcare and big health industry for many years

The immense scale of China’s healthcare market and its continuous growth are encouraging, but rapid growth tends to be a recipe for enormous risks, which makes cautious decision making and professional counseling ever more indispensable. Our healthcare and big health group has years of experience providing clients in this market with practical solutions and advice, and helping health facilities, pharmaceutical companies, and medical schools avoid and control legal risks effectively while providing healthcare services, so they can increase management efficiency and reduce operational costs.

We boast a strong team of solid expertise and ample experience. Our lawyers have been keeping tabs on changes in public health policies, laws, and regulations, thus having gained a deep insight into the drivers of development and future trends of the healthcare industry. Drawing on their expertise in medical law, health management, risk prevention for medical institutions, compliant operation of medical businesses, and many other domains and nearly two decades’ worth of extensive experience in serving medical companies and organizations, our lawyers deliver a broad range of services, including developing comprehensive and consistent compliance management regimes for clients as well as supporting and safeguarding the decision-making of the industry players’ management. Our legal guidance serves as the foundation for both medical corporations’ and public organizations’ compliant operations as well as maximization of profits.

In recent years, the internet and big data have seen increasingly wide application in the healthcare industry. We are up to speed with that latest developments and have the capabilities to provide top-notch solutions to policy challenges and legal issues that our clients may encounter during their provision of “internet plus” healthcare services. This will spare healthcare professionals from worries over potential litigation and allow them to fully utilize new technologies to serve patients with first-rate effectiveness and efficiency.

Scope of Services

Compliance System Establishment and Risk Management

Providing routine compliance counseling; identifying and assessing compliance risks; advising on compliance management of business partners; conducting internal corporate compliance investigations; responding to governmental regulation and controlling mass incidents and crises; formulating compliance guidance for company management and employees and providing compliance training; and building comprehensive compliance systems

Comprehensive Management of Healthcare Facilities

Advising on decision making and structuring of large medical group companies, procurement of medicines and medical devices, risk control of medical cooperation, ethical reviews of medical experiments, tender invitation and tendering, capital construction, use of government allocated funds, disposal of non-performing assets, and tackling of leftover issues of China’s reformation of public-sector entities

Prevention of Legal Risks

Assisting businesses in obtaining required licenses and permits, including permits for clinical trials and drug traceability codes; reviewing promotion models of drugs and medical devices, handling arbitration and litigation involving disputes over medical products; regularly updating clients with significant changes in healthcare laws and policies and formulating necessary contingency plans; and dealing with disputes over drug and medical device related infringement

Investment, Financing, and M&As

Assisting clients in formulating feasible M&A, investment, or financing plans in line with their local laws, regulations, and policies and in taking related risk control measures

Reformation and Restructuring

Advising state-owned enterprises and public institutions on their privatization of by way of obtaining investments from private sectors and on their mixed ownership reforms, both of which involve reform and restructuring of rights and interests such as ownership, income, and management right

Anti-commercial Bribery, Internal Investigations, and Response to External Regulation

Representing clients in responding to regulation conducted by law enforcement authorities to reduce risks of incurring administrative penalties; helping clients conduct internal investigations to eliminate uncertainties and reduce legal risks; tapping our international service network to respond to anti-bribery and anti-corruption investigations conducted by overseas regulators

Dispute Resolution

Representing clients in various disputes arising in their production and operations, including disputes over healthcare services, pharmaceutical products and medical devices, scientific research cooperation and contracts, healthcare liability, and labor and employment

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