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The immense scale of China’s healthcare market and its continuous and significant growth are encouraging, but rapid growth often entails enormous risks, which renders careful decision making and professional counseling ever more indispensable. Our healthcare team has years of experience providing leading players in this market with practical solutions and sound advice, and helping health facilities, pharmaceutical group companies, and medical schools effectively avoid and control legal risks that may arise from their healthcare practices, while at the same assisting our clients to improve management efficiency and reduce operation costs.

We boast a strong team with solid expertise and ample experience. For more than a decade, our lawyers have been keenly following the latest developments in public health policies, laws and regulations, and closely working with medical experts, thus gaining a deep insight into the development and future trends of the healthcare industry. To enable our clients to offer more safe and efficient healthcare products, we have introduced a compliance and legal risk management system that ramps up their competitiveness in four key ways: stringent quality control of medical services; improvement of patients’ experience; implementation of brand management strategies to build trust; and standardization of healthcare service procedures.

In recent years, internet and big data have seen increasingly wide application in the healthcare industry. We are abreast of all the latest developments and have the insight and expertise to help our clients adapt to policy challenges and plan ahead for the novel legal issues that they may encounter during their provision of “internet plus” healthcare services. This may help alleviate healthcare professionals from constant worries over potential litigation and allow them to more fully utilize new technologies to serve society with effectiveness and efficiency.

Scope of Services

Dispute Resolution

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

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

Representing clients in responding to investigations conducted by law enforcement authorities and helping 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

Reform and Restructuring

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

Investment, Financing, and M&As

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

Prevention of Legal Risks

Assisting businesses in obtaining required licenses and permits, including permits and ethics review 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 infringement disputes over drugs and medical devices

Comprehensive Management of Healthcare Facilities

Advising on decision making and structuring of large medical group companies, procurement of medicines and medical devices, risk control in medical cooperation, ethics review for medical experiments, tendering, capacity building, use of government allocated funds, disposal of non-performing assets, and resolution of persistent and problematic issues leftover from corporate restructuring

Building of Compliance Management Systems and Management of Risks

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

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