Foreign investors have found that dealing with unclear and often unpredictable regulations and overlapping bureaucratic structures are two of the biggest challenges to doing business in China. In response to an American Chamber of Commerce questionnaire, circulated in 2005, almost all of U.S. companies surveyed indicated that unclear regulations and excessive bureacracy have negatively impacted their business in China.

We have developed a practice that specializes in addressing these challenges and strengthening our clients’ investments in China. Recent projects have been aimed at helping our clients:

• understand and become familiar with policies and regulations;
• understand the key decision makers and influentials for these policies and regulations;
• establish cooperative relationships with central and local government management agencies;
• design corporate social responsibility projects to strengthen company reputation among government and industry stakeholders;
• manage issues and crisis';
• facilitate mergers and acquisitions by expediting government approval processes;
• build the government affairs capacity of our clients through training; and
• arrange senior executive meetings with Chinese government officials at the central and local level.
  

A Chinese proverb says: “Great surging rivers are made up of a thousand small ripples.” Similarly, we believe that great causes are achieved through a daily work ethic that emphasizes attention to detail. According to our clients’ specific needs, we monitor changes in administrative regulations and anticipate how those changes may affect our clients’ strategic interests in China. We maintain close relationships with officials at the various levels of government and with industry and trade media organizations. Thus we are ideally positioned to carry out crisis management; aid in investment decisions, such as market entry, corporate structure and M&A; and effectively educate authorities and the public regarding the benefits that our clients offer.