Event Details

The American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai is launching the SME Support Series to provide free consultation services to help support our small-medium enterprises (SME) and startup members impacted by COVID-19.


Our second SME Support Series event will be hosted by the Legal Committee to offer free legal advice on Thursday, May 21st from 10: 00 to 11:00 am via Zoom. This event will start with a quick presentation, followed by a 30-minute Q&A session open to all attendees. Questions may be submitted anonymously beforehand via email to jenny.wang@amcham-shanghai.org or via chat box on Zoom.


The topics that will be discussed include:


- Force Majeure under COVID-19 - How to invoke it, and where there is a dispute, how to pursue a cost-effective solution

- Supply chain management and communication with counterparties

- Business interruption insurance and considering whether policies respond

- Calls on performance bonds (and how to guard against them)

- Employment issues

- Cybersecurity issues around remote working.



The discussion will be moderated by Brinton M. Scott, Chair of the Legal Committee and Managing Partner at Winston Strawn LLP.


Please note that this event will be open to AmCham SME members only.


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After you register on EventBank, you will receive an email with the Zoom Webinar ID 1 day and 1 hour before the event.


If you have any questions, please contact: jenny.wang@amcham-shanghai.org

Speakers

  • Peter Howard CORNE (Managing Partner, Shanghai at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Shanghai Office (USA))

    Peter Howard CORNE

    Managing Partner, Shanghai at Dorsey & Whitney LLP, Shanghai Office (USA)

    One of the only foreign lawyers with permanent residency in mainland China, Peter is one of the longest serving expatriate lawyers in Shanghai, having worked there since early 1996, and formerly in Hong Kong and in Beijing. He has spent extended periods of time studying law and language in China and in Japan. Peter experienced each of the periods of China's legal development as a student and lawyer - the opening up of the 80's, the joint venture wave in the 90's, the M&A wave in the first decade in the millenium, and the restructuring wave that followed. He also has been a pioneer in the field of anti-trust in China.

    Peter's passions are mediation, and helping China to address its environmental issues. He has focussed his efforts on cleantech since 2005, and is now one of the only lawyers on the mainland that can claim to have primarily a environmental focus. He helps cleantech companies structure their pathways into mainland China, and Chinese companies invest offshore into such projects.

    Peter is an enthusiastic proponent of mediated settlements to disputes. He helped to forge a relationship between Shanghai Commercial Mediation Center and the leading mediation institution in the US, JAMS. He is a recipient of cross-border environmental dispute settlement training from Mediators Beyond Borders.

    Peter has been active in business community based environmental and cleantech activities, and is an active supporter of local community programs, such as the lunch box program for the elderly and childless at the Shanghai Jin'an Golden Key Community.

    Peter is author of one of the leading texts on the operation of the Chinese legal system which is used in law schools around the world: "Foreign Investment in China: the Administrative Legal System" (Trans Juris Publishers and Hong Kong University Press, 1997), as well as numerous academic legal articles on China and Japan in leading law journals and books, such as "Doing Business in China" and the American Journal of Comparative Law.

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