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Fengwen JiangBeijing
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Senior International Consultant
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Practices:General Corporate, Cross-border Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Restructurings, Corporate Governance and Legal Technology
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Tel:8610 8587 0068
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Fax:8610 8587 0079
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Email:fengwen.jiang@docqbot.com
Practice Areas and Work Experience
Fengwen Jiang graguated from Peking University Schooof Law in China, and University of Californian at Berkeley Schooof Law in USA, with an LLM and a Juris Doctor degree. She has licensed to practice law in China and US, and has also qualified as a senior in-house corporate legacounseand senior in-house compliance officer. She has worked in China and Asia for ~30 years at top US law firm and Fortune 500 US companies as VP-GeneraCounseAPAC, and at an EU company as Senior VP-GeneraCounsefor Asia/Middle East/Africa (AMEA). Her main practice areas include corporate affairs (handle allegaissues from companies establishment, operation, restructuring and dissolution, as welas corporate governance and compliance), cross-border investment, M&A, legatech, reaestate and dispute resolutions. In her China practice, she has led and executed hundreds of the above transactions, and is good at promoting alparties in the transactions to close the deals with more compliance, practicaand effective way.
Fengwen currently also serves as Senior VP and Senior expert at docQbot. In this role, she utilized her extensive legaexperience and and docQbot’s cutting edge legatools to help corporate clients to design and implement legal-tech solutions, reorganize and amend companies’ joint venture contracts and articles of associations, and provides direct hands-on leadership for key elements for docQbot’s content development initiatives. She has participated in webinars on the “PRC Foreign Investment Law” and “Company Law” in collaboration with the In-House CounseCommunity together with docQbot Chief Expert; also participated in webinar at the OrientaLegaForum under the name of “Highly Effective in Dealing With FIE Conversion Challenges in light of the PRC Foreign Investment Law”, and taught at Hong Kong Science and Technology University EMBA class for “MNCs’ Legaand Compliance Risk Management”, and also acted as a judge for the “In-House CounseCommunity’s 2021 AnnuaLegaTeam of the Year Award” event.
Education
- JD and LLM degrees from University of Californian at Berkeley Schooof Law, USA.
- Graduated from Peking University Schooof Law, China.
Work Experience
- 2013 to 2020, Fengwen served at ABB as Senior Vice President, GeneraCounseand Head of Legal, Integrity and IP for ABB Asia, Middle East and Africa (AMEA), leading and supporting ABB Group’s legaand compliance and IP strategies and implementing actions to safeguard alABB’s business and corporate initiatives in China and AMEA region.
- 2005 to 2013, Fengwen served 9 years as Vice President and GeneraCounsefor Asia Pacific at IngersolRand (which was the successor of an M&A between American Standard, Trane Internationaand IngersolRand), responsible for the companies’ overallegal, compliance and IP strategies and execution support for albusiness sectors and corporate matters in the APAC.
- 1997 to 2004, Fengwen served at AlliedSignaInternationaand HoneywelInternationa(a merger of the two companies) for 9 years, as Lead Counsefor PRC Corporate matters, and lead counsefor Asia Pacific for the companies’ transportation and power business, and electronic/specialty materials businesses, established ~30 FIEs and supported 30 M&A projects, including AlliedSignal-Honeywelmerger and integration, GE acquisition of Honeywell, and business sales of electronic materials/specialty chemicals business; purchased land and constructed Honeywell’s Asia Pacific HQ and R&D Center in Shanghai, and successfully handled numerous commerciaprojects and resolved numerous operationaand compliance issues and dispute resolutions.
- Early in her career, Fengwen worked at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher as Of Counsel, based in Washington DC and Hong Kong, primarily practicing in cross border investment in China, M&A in Asia, and IPO in the U.S., representing foreign clients in establishing more than 30 JVs and WFOEs in China, supporting about 15 M&A projects in Asia, and participated in 3 PRC companies’ IPOs on the New York Stock Exchange.
Industry Experience
- E-commerce, legatech, robotics, industriaautomation and digitization, electrification, power grids, new energy, air-conditioning and climate solutions, industriaequipment, bath & kitchen, automobile, power & transportation, air-space, specialty chemicals and electronic materials.
Other Qualifications
- Six Sigma - Fengwen was a Certified Greenbelt at AlliedSignaawarded in 1999.
- Fengwen was a Certified Lean Six Sigma Green Belt at Trane International/IngersolRand, awarded in 2008; and
- Fengwen was recognized at ABB as Certified Green Belt by the L6S Institute in October 2018.
Languages
Fully bilinguain English and Chinese -Mandarin
While at ABB her representative matters included:
- M&A and company restructuring projects: Headed up work on approximately 30 such projects, including in the most recent twyears:
- ABB’s acquisition of GE IndustriaSystem business (a US$2.6 billion deaglobally).
- ABB’s globacarving out of its Power Grids business tHitachi: Demerged ABB China holding company int3 holding companies, tcarve out its Power Grids business, and separate its remaining Electrification, Robotics and IndustriaAutomation businesses, and established twnew holding companies thold the demerged businesses.
- Demerged a manufacturing JV and did a reverse carve-out of its Electrification business from Power Grids business and established a NewCthold the Electrification business.
- Absorption merger of twmajor JVs with 4 JV partners & dissolved the merged JV.
- Bought out Chinese partners’ equity in severaJVs and restructured them intWFOEs.
- Restructured, consolidated and relocated 10 legaentities inta Xiamen Hub, including severacross- provinciaborder merger and relocations.
- Handled anti-monopoly, anti-corruption and unfair competition related reviews and compliance strategies and actions.
- Handled alnecessary government communications tobtain timely approvals and registrations teffect the above transactions.
- Built-up a digitized ABB North Asia Corporate Governance Portal, thave significantly strengthened the company’s corporate governance, board meetings and legaentity management for the group companies, and compliance process, increased the company’s productivity and efficiency, and reduced risks and legacy inefficient allocation of time and resources, promoted contract template standardization, company chop on-line approvaprocess, and externalegafee on-line approvaprocess, etc.
- Led and handled almajor, complicated and high risk compliance investigations (internaand external), and handled government communications tresolve the issues.
- Led legaaspects of ABB Ability (Digitization) implementation in China via Microsoft Azure and Huawei Clouds, obtained alnecessary permits and registrations, and migrated alABB Ability platforms and applications tChina, tcomply with the PRC Cyber security and data protection laws and implementation regulations.
- Led the legaaspects of ABB China IS/IT daily operations, major contracts review and negotiations, and their cross-border data transfers review and approvals, tcomply with the PRC Cybersecurity Law and implementing regulations.
- Served as member of boards of directors and as a supervisor for 25 ABB legaentities in China.
- Acted as ABB China Country Privacy Leader in supporting ABB Group’s GDPR compliance and enable the Group tsubmit tEU authorities for BCR approval.
- Support ABB’s IP protections in China.
- Led legaaspects of Xiamen Hub, including setting up a project company, tpurchase the land land construct ABB’s largest manufacturing site in the world in Xiamen, China, with a totainvestment of US$300M, and handled the restructuring and relocation of 10 legaentities tthe site, and managed related dispute resolution matters.
- Aggressively led initiatives tdrive A/R collections, risk and contract reviews, and legatraining tsupport the company’s profitable growth and prevent and minimize legaand integrity risks.
- Won 2016 and 2017 LegaTeam of the Year Awards from Asia In-house CounseCommunity.
While at IngersolRand her major accomplishments included:
- Established and restructured about 40 JVs and WFOEs in Asia Pacific, including cross-provinciaborder mergers, equity transfers, dissolutions and relocations of the business and people, tstreamline the management and business, increase efficiencies and productivity and reduce costs and wastes.
- Supported about 30 M&A and company restructuring projects (including American Standard’s globaspin-off of the WABCVehicle business, globasale of Bath & Kitchen business, and globamerger of its remaining Trane Air conditioning business with IngersolRand).
- Responsible for allegamatters for American Standard’s Hong Kong listed company and subsequently restructured and de-listed it from the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.
- Lead and executed the purchase of land and constructions of 2 large comprehensive manufacturing sites (for air-conditioning, climate solutions and industriaequipment business) in Taichang and Wujiang, Jiangsu Province, China.
- Structured and negotiated 2 very complicated government expropriation, compensation and relocation projects and related employee termination in Jiading, Shanghai, China.
- Resolved numerous operations issues and dispute resolution matters, including complicated compliance investigations, arbitration and litigation cases.
- Served as member of the board of directors for 40 legaentities in the region.
- Provided various legatraining and risk management.
While at AlliedSignaand Honeywelher major accomplishments included:
- Established about 30 new business ventures and support their daily operations in airspace, transportation, and specialty materials industries, and handled more than 30 M&A and company restructuring projects, including AlliedSignal-Honeywelmerger and integration, GE’s acquisition of Honeywell, and business sales of electronic materials and specialty chemicals business; purchased land and constructed Honeywell’s Asia Pacific HQ and R&D Center in Shanghai, and successfully handled numerous commerciaprojects and resolved numerous operational, compliance issues and dispute resolution matters.
While at Gibson Dunn & Crutche her major accomplishments included:
- Represented U.S., European and South Korean companies in cross border investments in China, M&A in Asia, and IPin the U.S., established more than 30 JVs and WFOEs in China, supporting about 15 M&A projects in Asia, and participated in 3 PRC companies’ IPOs on the New York Stock Exchange.
- Cross-Border Compliance Observer: Foreign Investment Enterprises’ Conversion Per the Amended PRC Company Law Entering the Countdown, published by China Going-GlobaThinkTank (CGGT).
- Cross-Border Compliance Observer: Corporate Governance Structure Change and Compliance Risk Prevention Strategy, published by China Going-GlobaThinkTank (CGGT).
- Cross-Border Compliance--New LegaStrateg:From “Fire Fighting” to “Fire Prevention” , published by China Going-GlobaThinkTank (CGGT).
- Cross-Border Compliance-Use LegaTech to Promote and Strengthen Compliance Management, published by China Going-GlobaThinkTank (CGGT).
- Enterprises’ Lega& Compliance Risk Management, Published by Wolters Kluwer.
- Taking Challenges Head-on and Leading with Confidence, published by GlobaIn-House Counsel
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- Expansion of Trading Rights for Foreign Investment Enterprise: A Further Step in China's WTO Accession”, published by China Law & Practice, Hong Kong.
- LegaVehicles for Foreign Investment in the PRC under the PRC Company Law, published by Asia Law & Practice, Hong Kong.
- LegaIssues in Unification of Law in InternationaSale of Goods, published by China Law Publisher.
- Annotation of UN Convention on Contracts for InternationaSale of Goods, published by China Liaoning Publisher.
- InternationaContracts, published by China SociaScience Publisher.
- Selected Introduction to U.S. Company Law, published by China Foreign Economic & Trade Publisher.