The European Chamber is delighted to welcome Managing Partner of Greatway Advisory Shanghai, Giovanni Pisacane, to share some of the key ideas underpinning his most recent book on Corporate Governance in China. 

In his presentation, Pisacane will provide useful tools and information to understand the key factors involved in organizing, structuring and managing a company in China and will focus on the critical issues that foreign investors and professionals encounter in China.

Afterwards, Jan Holthius, Partner at Buren Tax Notary, will speak about protection of minority shareholders' rights in a Sino-Foreign joint venture. 

Agenda

8.30 - 9.00       Registration

9.00 - 9.10       Welcome Remarks

9.10 - 9.55      Corporate Governance in China by Mr Giovanni Pisacane, Managing Partner, Greatway Advisory
                         Shanghai

9.55-10.15      Protection of Minority Shareholders' Rights in a Sino-Foreign Joint Venture by Mr Jan Holthuis Partner,
                      Buren Legal Tax Notary

10.15- 10.50    Q&A Session

10.50 - 11.00    Closing Remarks

*Please note the views expressed in this event are those of our guest speaker and do not necessarily reflect the position of the European Union Chamber of Commerce in China.

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Speakers

Mr. Giovanni Pisacane

Managing Partner – Lawyer, GWA Law,Tax & Accounting

Mr. Giovanni Pisacane

Managing Partner – Lawyer, GWA Law,Tax & Accounting

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Mr. Giovanni Pisacane is an Italian business lawyer specializing in international practice. He has been practicing as a business lawyer since 1996 and has extensive experience in arbitration and mediation. He completed a Masters in Private International Law at The Hague Academy in the Netherlands. He is managing partner of GWA, which he founded in 2004. He was appointed as a Special Advisor for Italy-China business relations by the Italian Ministry of Economic Development. Giovanni Pisacane is a member of the panel of arbitrators of SHIAC (Shanghai International Arbitration Center) and VIAC (Vienna International Arbitral Centre), and is also a member of the ECLS (European China Law Studies Association), the IBA Arbitration Committee (International Bar Association) and the ICCA (International Council for Commercial Arbitration). He has been the author of several books and articles in both English and Italian concerning civil and commercial law in China. His latest publication, written in cooperation with Lea Murphy and Calvin Zhang, is Arbitration in China: Rules and Perspectives, Springer, 2016.

Mr. Jan Holthuis

Partner, Buren Legal Tax Notary

Mr. Jan Holthuis

Partner, Buren Legal Tax Notary

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Jan Holthuis is an experienced advisor in China related cross-border M&A transactions and complex international litigation cases on corporate, commercial and intellectual property related disputes. Jan is active in the China legal practice since 1995 and predominantly living and working in China since 2009.
Jan Holthuis is the founder of the former HIL International Lawyers & Advisers, an international niche law firm with a specialization in Chinese law and practice. HIL, active in China since 1995, with offices in Amsterdam, Shanghai and Beijing, was the first Dutch firm to be granted a license from the Chinese Ministry of Justice to operate a foreign law firm branch in China in 2004. In 2016 HIL merged with Buren and Jan joined Buren as a partner.

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