Bessie Liu

Bessie Liu, a partner lawyer at Baohua Law Firm , is a specialist in labor and commercial law, judicial practices in human resources, compliance, HR related matters in the business operation and investment & divestment in China etc. With over 18 years of experience, Bessie has provided legal services to multiple companies in China. Her expertise lies in human resource management, compliance investigations, labor and commercial dispute resolution, and HR-related personal information protection. 

Bessie is dedicated to providing professional, efficient, and reliable legal services to multiple domestic and overseas clients, handling complex compliance investigations, labor disputes, and major international commercial disputes. She is also engaged as an external labor legal counsel of many domestic and foreign enterprises to plan and execute their employee reduction/separation, relocation, and redeployment projects due to the client's decision on M&A, divestment, or spin-off of their subsidiaries/sites in APAC, etc. 

Representative Cases

• [Compliance & employment] A U.S.medical device entity on suspected bribery cases of its sales & marketing VP and of its Chinese subsidiary related to benefits provided to government officials via 3rd party vendors
• [Compliance] A U.S. automotive MNC: internal investigation on its senior officers in Chinese subsidiaries complained for encroachment and bribery to government medical regulators
• [Trade Compliance] A U.S. instruments entity: investigations of trade compliance violation matter of its acquired entity in Shenzhen
• [Compliance & anti-commercial bribery] A U.S. MNC in investigating suspected commercial bribery matters of one general manager and the sales team in its subsidiary in Suzhou
• [White Collar Crime] A EU food brand in compliance investigation of a technical manager and the team in Shanghai in a suspected corruption criminal case
• [Non-compete & Non-disclosure] A middle-east multinational fertilizer company conflict-of-interest violations investigation of its regional sales manager in Yunan and Guangdong regarding 3rd parties directly & indirectly owned by their spouse
• [M&A] A U.S. listed entity on its acquisition of a Chinese subsidiary of a German company specializing in automotive testing system solutions and another Chinese subsidiary of an American company supplying EV battery testing products

Education

2014 – 2015: Chicago-Kent College of Law, LL.M

2002 – 2005: East China University of Political Science and Law, LL.M

Languages

Mandarin, English