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Carol ZHU

Carol Zhu is a partner in the firm's employment practice group. Her practice focuses on all aspects of labor and employment law from hiring to firing, including establishing and enforcing HR policies, drafting and reviewing HR related documents, employee benefit and incentive plan, confidentiality and restrictive covenants, privacy and data protection, labor dispatch and outsourcing, employee transition in mergers, acquisitions and restructurings, mass redundancies, collective consultation, especially on managing complicated employment dispute and handling related labor arbitration and litigation. She also assists clients with investigation of employee's misconduct and due diligence on employment compliance. In addition, she often helps international clients with global mobility and cross-border employment issues.

Carol has been ranked as a tier-one or leading labor and employment lawyer for consecutive years by Chambers, The Legal 500 and AsiaLaw, etc. She is also an officer of the Diversity and Equality Law Committee of the International Bar Association.

Representative Matters

  • Advised a world-famous elevator company on the issues related to employment contract, flexible working hours system, work- related injuries and employees under medical treatment period etc.

  • Advised a foreign-invested education company engaging in students’ overseas exchange programs on reduction of employees’ salary due to reduction in business caused by pandemic and termination of employment contracts with its foreign employees due to his incompetency

  • Advised a US molds company on phantom share incentive scheme for its executive

  • Advised a start-up pharmaceutical company on terminating several senior managers and negotiated with these senior managers on mutual separation and stock options arrangement for the company

  • Advised a leading US labor and employment boutique on cross-border employment issues such as EOR or direct employment in China

  • Advised a well-known foreign invested telecommunications company on its large- scale layoff in China, including attending all employee conference, employee representative meetings, communicate with trade union, labor authorities and police and participating termination negotiation with the employees

  • Represented a world-famous investment company on labor arbitration and litigation filed by a former senior employee for the dispute on huge amount of bonus and overtime compensation

  • Represented a former executive in the labor arbitration and litigation caused by his former employer’s denial of his resignation and his rights to exercise his vested stock options

  • Represented a subsidiary of an Australian architectural planning and design group in China in an employment dispute with its expatriate general manager

  • Represented a Fortune 500 company in handling labor arbitration and litigation cases involving a 5 million commission dispute filed by a former employee

  • Advised a leading US manufacturer of microprocessors in investigation and termination of its office manager and represented the company in the subsequent mediation with the employee in the labor arbitration filed by the employee

  • Represented a leading global luxury goods company in an investigation of alleged commercial bribery by a senior employee of its subsidiary in China and advised on the termination of the individual's employment contract

  • Represented a well-known German medical device company in providing anti-corruption education and training to local distributors in China

  • Provided services such as visa, work permit, residence permit application, extension, change, and cancellation to multiple multinational corporations

Honors and Awards

For Individual

1.Band 1, Labor & Employment Law in China, by Chambers Asia Pacific/Greater China, 2019 - 2023

2.Leading Individual, Labor and Employment Law in China, The Legal 500, 2017 - 2024

3.Leading Lawyer of Labor & Employment Law, by Asialaw Profiles, 2020 - 2024

4.Asia-Pacific’s Top 100 Women in Litigation, Benchmark Litigation, 2021 - 2022

5.Global Leader: Labor, Employment & Benefits, Who’s Who Legal, 2018 - 2024

6.Labor & Employment Lawyer of the Year, China Law and Practice, 2014 & 2016

Memberships & Affiliations

1. Member, China National Lawyer’s Association

2.Officer, Diversity and Equality Law Committee, International Bar Association (IBA)

3.Member, Labor & Employment Law Committee of IBA

4.Member, Employment & Immigration Law Committee, Inter-Pacific Bar Association

Publications

1.Law and Practice of China Chapter to the Chambers Global Practice Guide -Employment 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th Edition, Chambers, 2019 - 2022;

2.China Chapter to the 2022 Annual Global Report, International Bar Association, October 2022;

3.China Q&A chapter to the Labour and Employment Law Country Comparative Guide 6th, The Legal 500, in July 2022;

4.Pensions & Retirement Plans 2022, Lexology GTDT, March 2022;

5.Occupational Health & Safety in September 2021, Lexology GTDT, May 2021;

6."Employers’ Social Security Contribution made in Different Cities through Agents: Risks, Trends and Countermeasures", LexisNexis, August 2020;

7.Coauthored “Analysis on Several Questions Related to Sick Leave Pay in Shanghai”, LexisNexis, July 2020;

8.Coauthored the “Analysis on Issues Relating to Compensation for Non-competition” for LexisNexis in May 2020;

9.Coauthored “Dealing Employment Contract Issues in Company Relocation and Mass Employee Transfer”, LexisNexis, June 2017;

10.Coauthored “The exclusive China Chapter to Employment & Labor Law” 3rd Edition, the Global Legal Insights, December 2014;

11.Analysis on Legal Issues Relating to Labor Services of Foreign Contractual Projects, International Labor Study magazine, December 2014

Related

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    PRC Bar, 2005

  • Education

    LL.M. in International Law, FUDAN UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW
    LL.B., SHANGHAI NORMAL UNIVERSITY

  • Professional Experience

    Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm
    Senior Associate, DLA Piper
    HR Director for China, Tyco International, Thermal Controls
    Head of HR for Asia Pacific Region, Libby Inc., UK Babcock AP Operations, etc.

  • Languages

    Chinese
    English