Compliance and Corporate Social Responsibility
Main Businesses
A&Z is skilled in providing appropriate and feasible legal advice regarding compliance matters, and representing companies in dealing with compliance matters on the basis of sound legal knowledge, business situations and governmental relationship. The Compliance department boasts expertise in every aspect of business operations, including internal compliance, IP, professional responsibility, safety in production, trade secret protection, antitrust, competition matters, anti-commercial bribery, white-collar criminal defence and other miscellaneous compliance issues. Regarding governmental supervision compliance, A&Z is familiar with China’s compliance laws and regulations, and thus can provide compliance guidance and system construction in meeting the requirements of the Administration for Industry & Commerce, the Bureau of Quality and Technology Supervision, the Tax Bureau, the Public Security Bureau, the Administration of Customs, and other governmental supervision departments, and also can help to facilitate communication with these departments.
A&Z is familiar with the regulations of CSR and as a result has been able to create a favorable environment for corporate development by assisting companies with complying with global and domestic CSR standards, devising flows and systems of CSR, seeking CSR projects, organising and coordinating CSR activities, improving brand prestige and image, safeguarding and balancing interests of companies, employees and society. In relation to CSR, A&Z provides more than just legal opinions and advice. A&Z itself is actively involved in CSR activities. For many years, A&Z has created donation-based and assistance-based programmes for alleviating poverty, aiding the elderly, and assisting students in need of financial aid.
Services
- Helping companies to devise systems of compliance and CSR rules based on their business scope and features;
- Providing compliance or CSR training/lectures for companies and employees;
- Providing updates on laws and supervision regarding Compliance/CSR;
- Setting up compliance hotlines/mailboxes for companies to receive compliance-related complaints, and aiding companies in handling said complaints;
- Investigating and managing corporate compliance cases, providing legal advice and solutions;
- Providing internal compliance audits for companies including comprehensive audits and special audits;
- Providing guidance to corporations and employees in response to administrative inspections and administrative punishments regarding compliance matters, and facilitating communications and negotiations with administrative departments;
- Creating various types of CSR programmes for companies and aiding in the organisation and coordination of CSR-related activities.
Main achievements
- Carry out special labor and personnel supervision service for a Japanese-invested manufacturing enterprise, produce a supervision report with tens of thousands of words and guide the enterprise to correct relevant problems.
- Assist a well-known Japanese-invested enterprise to introduce the compliance system, formulate relevant systems and conduct training, improve the compliance awareness of the company's management and employees, and suggest and assist the company to establish an internal accusation hotline system.
- Accept the entrustment of a famous pharmaceutical enterprise, provide comprehensive guidance and assistance in introducing the compliance system to the subsidiaries of the enterprise in China, and successively provide several times training to the management and employees of such subsidiaries.
- Accept the entrustment of many enterprises, set up a compliance complaint hotline (in the form of telephone or email), arrange special personnel to receive telephone and email, sort out, screen and analyze the complaints and reports received, and provide corresponding solutions.
- Accept the entrustment of a large Japanese-invested auto parts enterprise to investigate the internal employee reports received by the enterprise, assist the legal department, personnel department and management department of the enterprise to collect evidence, prepare investigation reports and provide handling suggestions.
- Accepting the entrustment of an electronic manufacturing enterprise to provide comprehensive assistance to the enterprise in the case of job encroachment, to assist the enterprise in taking disciplinary measures against employees, to collect and sort out relevant evidence, to assist clients in reporting cases to the police, and to continue to follow up the investigation, prosecution and trial process, and to investigate the criminal responsibility of employees.