Winners, Baker&McKenzie Fenxun and Morgan Lewis & Bockius Facilitate Legal Training Webinar for Members of American Chamber of Commerce in China
On March 11th and 12th , sponsored by the American Chamber of Commerce in China (“AmCham China”) , Winners Law Firm joined hands with two international law firms, Baker&McKenzie and Morgan Lewis, to conduct two sessions of legal training webinars for AmCham China members on Commercial Contracts and Employment&Work Safty. The online legal training and consultation was aiming at supporting members to deal with legal challenges encountered during COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, and to resume the work as soon as possible.
On the afternoon of the 11th , Winners senior associate, as well as the Tianjin Outstanding Foreign Business Lawyer, Ms. Mary Chen with Partner of Baker&McKenzie FenXun presented the legal issues related to commercial contract and financing caused by the coronavirus epidemic, focusing on force majeure components and procedures and conditions for China Council for the Promotion of International Trade (“CCPIT”) to issue a Force Majeure Certificate for an affected contract party. On the afternoon of the 12th , Mr. Soloon Wang from Winners, who has many years of overseas work experience, joined the panel with Managing Partner of Morgan Lewis & Bockius, discussing the legal points regarding the labor law and work safety to help members better respond to COVID-19 outbreak and government orders.
The two training sessions has attracted more than 60 online audiences and sparked very interactive discussion. After the webinar, the AmCham China spoke highly of the speakers, “The content of the lecture is very practical...” “You can see the lawyers are very attentive through the PPT they prepared…” The attendee of the first session from US Embassy even emailed to express the training is very helpful to her for a clearer understanding of force majeure, “I especially liked Mary’s presentation with the case examples she used…" said in her email.
The American Chamber of Commerce also edited the lawyers' lectures and posted them to members on WeChat.