In this committee, members discuss finance, tax, legal, and HR related issues. The committee organizes closed-door roundtables and open events throughout the year.
Co-chairs:
Upcoming Events:
Corporate Services Committee
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) |
| Friday, Apr 9, 2021 |
Transfer Pricing & Customs Talks together with PwC |
Asta Nie, Senior Customs and Trade Compliance Professional Shilling Zhang, Senior Manager of PwC’s World trade Management Service (WMS)Practice Paul Tang, Partner in the PwCTransfer Pricing Practice Nancy Chen, Manager in the PwC Transfer Pricing Practice Chengfei Yuan, Director for PwC Shanghai Tax Service (French Tax Desk) |
| Monday, Apr 12, 2021 | [Webinar] China’s 14th Five-Year-Plan |
Markus Herrmann Chen, Director of Sinolytics Dr. Jost Wübbek, Director of Sinolytics Jingwen Tong, Consultant at Sinolytics Tiffany Wong, Consultant at Sinolytics Martin Catarata, Analyst at Sinolytics |
| Friday, Apr 23, 2021 | Visit to Jiaxing JXEDZ, Monin, Hormel, Majiabang | |
| Monday, Apr 26, 2021 | [Webinar] Individual Income Tax Reform: What Will Change In 2022 |
Faye YU, Partner Tax Services PwC China at PwC |
| Friday, May 14, 2021 | Visit to Taicang City and Exchanges with Taicang Roundtable |
Past Events:
| Date | Topic | Speaker(s) |
| Wednesday, Mar 31, 2021 | [Event] Food Tech Meets Legal – Expert Dialogue On Old And New Trents In The F&B Industry |
Felix Engelhardt, Associate at Schulz Noack Bärwinkel – Asia Practice Alexander Leufgen, Executive Director at Stern Ingredients (suzhou) Co., Ltd |
| Wednesday, Jan 20, 2021 | [Event] What to expect in 2021: Inputs from 200 companies |
Franc Kaiser, Partner in Charge, at InterChina Consulting |
| Thursday, Dec 17, 2020 | [Event] Women in Business Christmas CONNECTORS |
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| Thursday, Dec 10, 2020 | [Event] SME Seminar: Retail, Contracts and Information Protection Law |
Jose Chiu, General Manager at M-Industry China (Migros) Nicolas Musy, Owner at China Integrated Co. Ltd. Michael Tan, Partner at Taylor Wessing Shanghai Representative Office Shuang Wang, Co-founder and CEO of NVXClouds Sabine Neuhaus, Associate of Kellerhals Carrard |
| Wednesday, Oct 21, 2020 | Simon Bosshart, Director China of Switzerland Tourism
Peter Staeheli Quednau, Head of Visa Section at Consulate General of Switzerland in Shanghai Veli Polat, Senior Director Sales – Greater China of Lufthansa Group Airlines |
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| Tuesday, Oct 13, 2020 |
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| Wednesday, Sept 23, 2020 |
[Event] Cash Repatriation and Funding Solutions for WFOEs in China |
Chengfei Yuan, Tax Director of PwC Maggie Zhang, International Banking at Bank of Shanghai |
| Friday, Aug 28, 2020 |
[Event] CEO / CFO Dinner with the Consul General and SwissCham Shanghai |
Andreas Hunziker, Board member of SwissCham Shanghai, Treasurer and co-chair of the finance / tax committee Olivier Zehnder, Consul General of Switzerland in Shanghai |
| Friday, Aug 21, 2020 |
[Event] Visit to Changzhou CND, Medela, Givaudan, Georg Fischer and Xinquan |
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| Thursday, Aug 13, 2020 |
[Event] Food safety and import regulations for the F&B industry |
Grégory Lachat, Senior Partner Dr. Cheng Zhang, lawyer Xiyan Hu, Director of Big Data Law at Capital Equity Legal Group Lei Jing, Director of International Trade and Compliance Department at Capital Equity Legal Group |
| Thursday, Jul 30, 2020 |
[Event] JVs in the Chinese market: Experiences and best practices |
Chen Liu, Managing Director of Weidmann Connie He, Secretary of the Board and Head of HR at Buhler (Wuxi) Commercial Co., Ltd Barry Chen, Partner in Charge, Corporate at InterChina Cheng Chen, Of Counsel at Kellerhals Carrard |
| Friday, Jul 17, 2020 |
[Event] Full Day Visit to Changshu CEDZ, Novartis, EFTEC and Hörmann |
Christophe Thuet, President / Managing Director of EFTEC Asia He SUN, General Manager at Suzhou Novartis Technical Development Co., Ltd. Mario Bock, Plant Director of Hörmann Changshu Door Production Co., Ltd. |
| Thursday, Jul 2, 2020 |
[Webinar] Economic Recovery In The Post-Epidemic Era Corporate Strategies and Risk Prevention |
Dr. Rolf-Dieter Reineke, Head of MBA Programmes, Project Manager at FHNW School of Business Regina Roos, Digital Transformation Manager at Company Roos – Solutions for future Terry Tan, Director of Leong Lee International |
| Tuesday, Jun 23, 2020 |
[Webinar] UBS: What role will the Chinese market play in the future |
Dominic Schnider, Head Commodities & APAC FX/Macro UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office Eva Lee, Head Hong Kong Equities , UBS Global Wealth Management Chief Investment Office |
| Tuesday, Jun 09, 2020 |
Philipp Wilhelm, Associate Partner, German Assurance Desk at Ernst & Young Wenjia Zhu, Director, Tax & Global Compliance & Reporting Services of Ernst & Young Howard Whiteson, Senior Wealth Manager at deVere Group and Founder of Wealth Without BordersTM |
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| Wednesday, May 27, 2020 |
Alfonso Troisi, Business Executive Officer of Greater China, Nespresso; President & National Representative of SwissCham Shanghai and SwissCham Jennifer Bao, Managing Director of V-ZUG Greater China Conny He, Head of HR at Buhler Group ASA Lindy Lin, Head of HR at Oerlikon Metco Surface Technology (Shanghai) Lily Zhang, HR Head at CBC Group Malisa Yung, HR Director of Richemont China |
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| Monday, May 25, 2020 |
[Supported Webinar] SME Online Roundtable – Cash-Flow Accelerator Agenda for SME |
Yimeng Wang, Partner at PwC China Fabrizio Ulivi, Managing Partner at Shi Bisset and Associates Ltd |
| Wednesday, Apr 29, 2020 |
[Supported Webinar] Enterprise Action Strategy In A Global Economic Crisis |
Prof. Dr. Rolf-Dieter Reineke, Head of MBA Programmes at FHNW School of Business Sebastian Goh, Managing Director of Belimo Automation Malaysia Sdn Bhd. |
| Monday, Apr 27, 2020 | [Webinar] COVID-19 Survey Analysis and Panel Discussion | Alfonso Troisi, Business Executive Officer of Greater China at Nespresso
Yves Reymond, Head of the Economic, Trade and Financial Section, at Embassy of Switzerland in Beijing Thilo Koeppe, Managing Director North Asia of HUBER+SUHNER Marco Bollier, Chief Commercial Officer at Geistlich Pharma China Lily Shi, Managing Director of Hidrostal (Qingdao) Pumps Co., Ltd and Hidrostal (Qingdao) M&E Engineering Co., Ltd. Peter Bachmann, Executive Director of SwissCham |
| Friday, Apr 24, 2020 |
Paul Tan, Partner at Forensic Services practice of PwC China at PwC (PriceWaterhouse Coopers) |
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| Wednesday, Apr 22, 2020 |
[Webinar] Export, import and distribution in China amid the COVID-19 pandemic |
Joe Liu, General Manager, FRAISA (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
Lucky Ding, Trade Specialist, Swiss Centers Shanghai Jessie Chu, Key Account Management – eCom, Greater China at Kuehne + Nagel Limited Rick Gao, Swiss International Air Lines Cargo |
| Wednesday, Apr 08, 2020 |
[Webinar] Financial and Tax-related Relief for Businesses, with PwC and MS Advisory |
Rock Wang, Partner of Tax Services at PwC Brian Blömer, Senior Associate – Head of Corporate Services at MS Advisory Cécilia Vermeulen, Moderator, General Manager at BenCham Shanghai |
| Monday, Apr 2, 2020 | [Webinar] HR Management and Preferential Policies by the Local Government | Jeanette Yu, Partner and Head of Employment & Pensions Practice Area Group at CMS China
Gilbert Shen, Counsel and Head of Tax Practice Area Group at CMS China |
| Thursday, Mar 26, 2020 | [Webinar] HR Challenges and Opportunities in face of COVID-19 | Zach Lichtblau, Partner at Bonnard Lawson Law Firm
Nicolas Musy, Owner at China Integrated Co. Ltd. Vanessa Yu, Director of Investment Promotion & Service Bureau of Pinghu Economic Technological Development |
| Friday, Mar 20, 2020 |
[Webinar] Logistics & Supply Chains Challenges amid the COVID-19 outbreak |
Chen Liu, Managing Director of Weidmann
Glenn Bai, Managing Director China of Militzer & Muench International Freight Forwarding (Beijing) Co., Ltd. Jing Wang, Business Development Manager, Sustainability Services at SGS Standards Techinical Services (China) Co. Ltd |
| Monday, Mar 9, 2020 |
[Webinar] The Legal and Tax Implications of the COVID-19 outbreak |
Suzanne Streit, Deputy Director of Taicang Investment Promotion
Yaqi Liu, Partner at Wenfei Business Consulting ( Shanghai ) Co. , Ltd Martin Ngai, Partner and Northern China Tax Leader at Ernst&Young |
| Wednesday, Feb 26, 2020 |
[Webinar] Supporting policies and legal implications in Taicang and Changzhou |
Ke Su, Head of Financial Affairs at Embassy of Switzerland
Jay Jiang, Deputy Director of Foreign Investment Promotion Philip Lazare, Partner at Luther Law Offices Sabine Neuhaus, Associate at Kellerhals Carrard |
| Thursday, Nov 28, 2019 |
The New Foreign Investment Law is Coming – What Companies Need to Know |
Cheng Chen, Of Counsel of Kellerhals Carrard
Sabine Neuhaus, Associate of Kellerhals Carrard |
| Thursday, Nov 21, 2019 |
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| Thursday, Nov 14, 2019 | CFO Forum – The Platform for Finance Professionals (Member ONLY) | Andreas Hunziker, CFO, Lindt & Sprüngli (China) |
| Tuesday, Oct 29, 2019 | Termination of Managerial Personnel: How to handle it when things come to an end |
Xu Tian, Partner at Eiger |
| Friday, Oct 18, 2019 |
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| Friday, Oct 18, 2019 | [培训] 并购，重组，搬家，裁员背景下的群体争仪预防与实务处理技巧（中文授课） Group Labor Dispute Prevention and Handling Skills in These Following Situations: Mergers and Acquisitions, Restructuring, Moving, Layoffs |
Lawyer Hong, Company law, Labor law expert, Partner of famous law firm |
| Thursday, Oct 10, 2019 | Getting Out: JV Restructuring and Divestments | Barry Chen, Partner in Charge, InterChina Dr. Lefan Gong Partner, Zhong Lun Law Firm Filippo Sticconi, Senior Associate, GWA Greatway Advisory Mr. Roger Bischof, Partner, Bonnard Lawson |
| Tuesday, Sep 24, 2019 | Workshop: How to leverage professionals and business partners in China? |
Martin Schneider, Owner of the BRAINFORCE Group |
| Wednesday, Aug 28, 2019 | Joint-Chamber HR Summer Mixer |
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| Thursday, Jul 05, 2018 |
Supply Chain Integrity – challenges and opportunities in today’s environment |
Michael Hickman, Principal at Control Risks |
| Monday, Jul 01, 2019 | Top employer practice sharing: Incentives and profit sharing schemes |
Frank Qu, Regional President of Wyeth Nutrition Greater China Region |
| Friday, Jun 28, 2019 |
Andreas Parpan, Operations Manager, Rieter |
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| Wednesday, Jun 26, 2019 | Introduction to Dispute Settlement Clauses in Contracts | Zhang Zheng, Luther Law Offices |
| Tuesday, May 28, 2019 | Chinese Accounting Standards (CAS) and a Comparison with IAS Principles | Marta Snaidero, Partner of GWA
Giada Piccinini, Senior Tax Advisor of GWA |
| Thursday, May 16, 2019 |
Marshall Chen, Head of Fiducia’s China Consulting Team |
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| Tuesday, Apr 23, 2019 | Tax Digitalization: Trends, technologies and solutions for companies | Feiya Zhao, Senior Manager of China Tax & Business Advisory Services, PwC
Kenneth X Liu, Senior Manager of Tax Technology, PwC Xiaoyun Liu, Manager of China Tax & Business Advisory Services, PwC |
| Thursday, Mar 14, 2019 | The New Foreign Investment Law – What Changes and How Will It Impact Companies | Ralph Koppitz, Taylor Wessing |
| Tuesday, Feb 26, 2019 | How to Manage Flexible Working and Gender Equality | Jeannette Yu, Head of Employment & Pensions CMS China
Tracy Jiao, APAC Regional HR Vice-President, Firmenich |
| Friday, Nov 29, 2018 | Contractual Negotiations in M&A of SME targets in China | Dr. Leonardo Cereghetti, Kellerhals Carrard
Mr. Cheng Chen, Kellerhals Carrard Dr. Guojian Xu, Boss & Young |
| Friday, Nov 23, 2018 |
Samantha Chalmers, Client Manager, 5 Star Plus Retail Design in Shanghai |
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| Tuesday, Nov 13, 2018 |
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| Thursday, Sep 20, 2018 | How finance adapts to today’s digital transformation | Andreas Hunziker, CFO of Lindt & Sprüngli (China) |
| Thursday, Aug 30th, 2018 | How to Create Talent Satisfaction Through a Great Workspace Environment | Jesper Thorlund, Director, Executive Rewards, the LEGO group
Eddie Ng, Managing Director, JLL East China Tony Armstrong, Senior Vice President, IWBI Asia, WELL Faculty, WELL AP Davide Fugazza, Managing Director, Greater China & North Asia, Haworth |
| Thursday, July 05, 2018 | Supply Chain Integrity – challenges and opportunities in today’s environment | Michael Hickman, Principal at Control Risks |
| Wednesday, June 27th, 2018 | Changing How You Hire in 2018 & HR Social Mixer | Dr. Shi Bisset, Founding Associate, Shi Bisset and Associates Ltd
Jamie Chang, O.D. Associate Partner, Shi Bisset & Associates |
| Thursday, May 24, 2018 |
Tim Juta, Managing Director, Komax China |
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| Tuesday, Apr 24, 2018 | Tax Audit and Defense for Foreign Companies | Gong Liang, Tax Controversy Practice |
| Wednesday, Jan 31, 2018 |
New Anti-Unfair Competition Law: What has changed and how can companies comply? |
Mike Goldammer, Partner of Taylor Wessing
Cara Meng, Senior Associate of Taylor Wessing Chi Chen, Partner Ernst & Young |
| Thursday, Jan 25, 2018 | Supply Chain and Warehousing Strategies for SMEs | Glenn Bai, Managing Director, Militzer & Muench’s China business Jiro Tchalikian, Atlanta Drive Technology (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. |
| Thursday, Nov 23, 2017 |
SME Seminar: Governance, Branding & Marketing, Made in China 2025, Labor Law |
Giovanni Pisacane, GWA |
| Wednesday, Oct 25, 2017 | 10 costly mistakes during the hiring process and how to do it the right way |
Hsiao J. CHIU, Managing Partner of JP International Search Consultants Co., Ltd. |
| Wednesday, Oct 25, 2017 | HR Summit | Celina Chew, President Bayer Greater China
Thomas Holzer, President, Voith Paper Asia Robert Wu, Asia VP HR, Voith Paper Asia Paul Hu, Community Manager, nakedHub Andrew J. Warneck, Deloitte Mr. Johannes Koenigshofer, Palfinger |
| Tuesday, Sep 26, 2017 | Environmental Protection: How Companies Stay ahead of Regulatory and Policy Trends | Olegario Monegal, President of Firmenich China
Felix Ding, Novartis Peter Corne, Dorsey & Whitney LLP |
| Tuesday, May 23, 2017 | CHINA’S NEW CYBERSECURITY LAW: MANAGING RISKS AND LEGAL ISSUE | Carly Ramsey, Associate Director of Control Risks
Michael Tan, Partner of Shanghai Arbitrator SHIAC |
| Friday, May 19, 2017 |
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| Thursday, April 20, 2017 | HR Workshop |
André Gisiger, President and co-founder of ILE International Learning Enterprises, Shanghai, China |
