Compliance & Regulatory

• Airbus – Assisted the client in response to the joint investigation conducted by British, French, and US government, which is the first major investigation by the French anti-corruption agency and has been aided by the UK's Serious Fraud Office (SFO) and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) and served the client from the perspective of Chinese law, resulting in the case honored as the Deal of the Year 2020 by China Business Law Journal

• CAE – Assisted the client to deal with PRC criminal investigation concerning bribery involved with a major state-owned airline as well as the company's internal compliance investigation, where Mr. Gao proactively communicated with the procuratorate and creatively proposed the inquiry being conducted with the judicial assistance from Hong Kong ICAC, with the endeavor of him and his legal service team culminating in the assistance from Hong Kong ICAC secured and the interview completed smoothly in ICAC

• Goldman Sachs – Provided legal compliance service

• Softbank - Provided due diligence services for data compliance and personal information protection involved in the business operation of target enterprises for Softbank's transactions and investment projects in China, especially those operating in high-tech domains, including internet applications

• Gopher Asset Management, Noah Holdings Limited - Provided comprehensive compliance legal services to Gopher Asset Management, the top private equity fund management business under US-listed Noah Holdings Limited to deal with the regulatory supervision by the China Securities Regulatory Commission after the promulgation and implementation of the Regulations on Strengthening the Supervision of Private Investment Funds (“Document No. 71"), with this case standing out as the first regulatory supervision case after the promulgation and implementation of Document No. 71, setting a precedent and paving the way for industry-wide compliance

• PayPal – Provided data compliance legal support for PayPal's acquisition of HNA Alipay

• A large local comprehensive financial service group – Provided legal consultation regarding data privacy and cybersecurity and issued legal opinion

• Tsingshan Holding Group – Provided legal compliance service for client's cross-border transaction

• China Merchants Securities – Assisted the client in response to a cross-border investigation

• Panasonic - Assisted the client to draft and renew a whole set of Asian Pacific anti-bribery/anti-corruption compliance policy

• Baowu Group – Provided the client with legal services for overseas compliance system establishment, including drafting the preliminary overseas compliance system plan as well as the compliance system and the daily operation guidance of overseas compliance manual covering the overseas data compliance, overseas executive criminal compliance, overseas trade compliance, overseas antitrust, and anti-unfair competition compliance

• Jinjiang Group – Assisted the client to establish a comprehensive compliance system, including improving the compliance management structure, drafting guidelines, sorting out the legal risk database, and modifying existing rules, policies, and regulations of the client

• eToro – Provided criminal compliance services for Israel's largest US listed Forex trading platform

• A large State-owned rare metal enterprise – Assisted the client in responding to a criminal case before the federal court of the United States and provided legal analysis and risk control strategies under Chinese law, especially from the perspective of China's international criminal judicial assistance

• A famous Spanish chemical engineering enterprise – Provided legal service regarding an environmental protection case and assisted the company to communicate with the authority, including the industry park, the local Administration of Work Safety and the local government, in order to mitigate the administrative punishment

• A famous American chemical industrial group - Assisted the client in response to the investigation by local fire safety bureau and public security bureau regarding environmental protection and provided legal consulting for the same

• A large local integrated financial services group – Provided legal consulting on data privacy and network security and issued legal opinions

• Danone – Provided compliance consulting services, including internal compliance investigations, legal risks, data privacy, etc.

• eBay - Provided compliance consulting services, including internal compliance investigations, legal risks, data privacy, and more

Dispute Resolution

• Represented the largest domestic trust management enterprise, Zhongzhi Enterprise Group, to deal with the cross-border business disputes arising from Chinese capital's investment in overseas on behalf of the client, involving a disputed amount of tens of billions yuan, where Mr. Gao cooperated with international law firms and filed legal proceedings on behalf of clients in China’s mainland, Hong Kong SAR, ICC, and Cayman Islands simultaneously, and where in the PRC legal process, Mr. Gao's team finally achieved victory in PRC legal process for the client and, by seamless corporation with foreign firms, successfully recovered all assets plus significant proceeds

• Successfully assisted ICBC Standard Bank to claim compensation from an insurance company through an arbitration conducted in South Africa and also worked as leading counsel in a series of litigation in Shandong for declaratory relief over the ownership of disputed cargos, with ICBC Standard Bank being the only international bank to have recovered the ownership of the cargos via the litigation process in the 2014 "Qingdao Port Fraud"

• Represented Tasly in a dispute arising out of a license agreement, with a disputed amount of approximately USD 40 million where a new ADR (i.e., expert determination) was applied to resolve the dispute, resulting in the client winning the case

• Represented Jiangsu Hengrui Medicine Group to deal with several cross-border litigation cases

• Represented GE Healthcare in a lawsuit over invalidation of contract, successfully safeguarding the interests of the client

• Participated in the libel case between Ba Wang International (Group) Holding Co., Ltd. and Next Magazine in HK as a PRC law expert witness, heard by Hong Kong SAR

• Represented CBRE Global Investors (Asia Pacific) Ltd in the legal proceedings to recover control of the bank account and obtained a freezing order over the bank account and won the case finally, involving CNY 200 million, where the judge hearing this case wrote an article about the significance and underneath legal theory, and the Supreme People’s Court gave an award to the judge which evidence the recognition of the case

• Represented eBay (China) to participate in a series of IP infringement litigations in China and established guiding cases on the neutrality of online trading platform

• Represented the Taiwan-listed company EZCONN and won litigation concerning international sales of goods

• Heard disputes as arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under the HKIAC arbitration rules

• Heard many foreign-related disputes as arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under the SHIAC arbitration rules

• Heard many disputes as arbitrator in arbitrations conducted under the SHAC arbitration rules

• Heard disputes as arbitrators of several domestic arbitration institutions