Litong Chen Senior Partner
Shanghai
021-58785888
henry.chen@dentons.cn
  • Compliance and Risk Management
  • Criminal Law
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Banking & Finance
  • Working Language:
  • English

Introduction

Henry Chen is a senior partner of Dacheng Shanghai Office. He holds the qualifications of a Chinese lawyer and a lawyer in the state of New York, USA. Henry Chen's business areas include compliance management system establishment, criminal defense, ESG system construction, data information protection and cyber security compliance, import and export control and economic sanctions, anti-bribery and anti-fraud investigations, and dispute resolution.

Henry Chen has assisted more than one hundred famous central state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in building compliance management systems, anti-bribery management systems, and economic sanctions and export control system constructions. Among them, more than 30 enterprises applying for ISO 37301 and ISO 37001 certification have all obtained certifications.

Henry Chen is engaged as a criminal defense lawyer to undertake criminal defense business for duty-related crimes.

Lawyer Chen is an arbitrator of the Hong Kong International Arbitration Center and a mediator of the Singapore Mediation Center, representing clients in dispute resolution cases.

Henry Chen is a "Certified Information Security Professional" (CISP) and a "Certified Important Information System Protection Personnel" (CIIP-A), providing clients with cyber security and data governance services.

Henry Chen served as the former Asia-Pacific compliance director of Ford Motor Company and a specially appointed compliance officer of Luckin Coffee. He currently also serves as the chief compliance expert of the Compliance Working Committee of the China Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Association, the vice president of the International Risk and Compliance Association. At present, he also serves as an independent director and a member of the compliance committee of ZTE Kangxun Electronics Co., Ltd.

Henry Chen is a member of the National Technical Committee on Institutional Governance Standardization and a registered expert of ISO/TC 309 Technical Committee on Organizational Governance in China (participating in the formulation of standards such as ISO 37301 compliance management system and related national standards, ISO 37001 anti-bribery management system and related national standards, ISO 37010 General Principles for ESG Disclosure, and ISO IWA 48 Framework for Implementing Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Principles).

Lawyer Chen has been selected into the "National List of One Thousand Foreign-related Lawyers" by the Ministry of Justice and has been listed in well-known rankings such as Chambers, The Legal 500, and LEGALBAND. He was also awarded the "ISO Outstanding Contribution Award" for formulating the ISO 37008 Technical Specification for Internal Investigations in Organizations.

Henry Chen has authored the following books:
• Commercial Bribery Risk Management
• Compliance Risks of Enterprises in Globalization: Outbreak and Control
• Practices of Chief Compliance Officers and Enterprise Compliance Officers
• Sixty Hot Questions on Enterprise Compliance Management

Awards received by Henry Chen include:
• Top 15 Lawyers Preferred by Clients in Compliance: 2024 LEGALBAND
• Top Lawyer in Compliance Field: 2024 LEGALBAND
• Listed Lawyer in Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption Field, Greater China Region, Chambers 2024
• ISO Excellency Award 2023
• Top Lawyer in Compliance Field: 2023 LEGALBAND
• Top 15 Lawyers Preferred by Clients in Compliance: 2023 LEGALBAND
• Top 15 Lawyers Preferred by Clients in Compliance: 2022 LEGALBAND
• Top 15 Lawyers in China: Automotive and New Energy: 2021 LEGALBAND
• Recommended Lawyer in Data Protection, Asia-Pacific Region, The Legal 500 2021
• Recognized Lawyer in Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption, Asia-Pacific Region, Chambers 2020.

Education

  • New York UniversityLLM(2003)
  • East China University of Political Science and LawLLM(1993)
  • Suzhou UniversityLLB(1990)

Admissions and Qualifications

  • PRC Licensed Lawyer

Working Experience

  • Beijing Dacheng Law Offices, LLPSenior Partner(2017 ~ Present)
  • Ford Motor CompanyAsia Pacific Compliance Director(2014 ~ 2017)
  • Shanghai Yuanda Law FirmPartner(2008 ~ 2013)
  • Baker & McKenzie LLPSenior Associate(2007 ~ 2008)
  • Herbert Smith LLPSenior Associate(2006 ~ 2007)

Honors and Awards

  • PRC Law Firm 2012 – Competition(2012), China Law&Practice
  • Regulatory Compliance Award of 2014(2014), Asian Legal Business
  • Recognized Practitioner in Asia-Pacific: Corporate Investigations/Anti-Corruption(2020), Chambers
  • Asia Pacific Guide to Recommended Lawyers: Data Protection(2021), Legal 500
  • China Top 15 Lawyers Automobile & New Energy(2021), LEGALBAND
  • Client Choice: Top 15 Compliance Lawyers(2022), LEGALBAND
  • Top Lawyer Compliance Field(2023), LEGALBAND
  • Excellence Award(2023), ISO
  • Greater China Region Listed Lawyer for Corporate Investigation/Anti-Corruption(2024), Chambers
  • China Client Preferred Compliance Lawyer: Anti-Corruption and Anti-Commercial Bribery(2024), GRCD
  • Non-Litigation Influence Award: Corporate Compliance Management(2024), Golden Line
  • Data Compliance Field: Leading Lawyer(2024), Lexpress
  • General Counsel Recommended Chinese Lawyers List: Client Selected Lawyer(2025), Hall of Fame
  • China Top 15 Lawyers Special Recommendation List: White-Collar and Commercial Crime(2025), LEGALBAND

Representative Projects/Matters

On behalf of a state-owned enterprise, the African Development Bank should investigate the performance fraud of illegal projects funded by the enterprise, and help the state-owned enterprise to carry out compliance rectification and compliance management system construction;

Provided training on bribery risk management to legal, compliance, HR and business managers from hundreds of leading international and domestic companies.

Represented a leading international milk powder company in an investigation conducted by Chinese government.

Represented numerous U.S. and European companies in connection with commercial bribery investigations initiated by China's industry and commerce authorities.

Represented numerous U.S. companies in their FCPA due diligence investigations in China.

Provided training to employees from numerous U.S. companies on the FCPA and China anti-bribery in China

Provided legal advice to one of the world's largest healthcare companies on its antitrust litigation.

Provided antitrust audit service to the world's largest pet food company

Provided antitrust audit service to the world's Largest Chocolate Manufacturer

Provided legal advice to the world's largest pharmaceutical company on its merger declaration to the Ministry of Commerce.

Provided antitrust filings for the world's largest chemical company

Represented a large US manufacturer of computational testing systems, classification and analysis software in the filing of antitrust reports with the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

Provided legal advice to one of the world's largest manufacturers of steel products on its antitrust reports to the Ministry of Commerce and the State Administration of Foreign Exchange.

Represented a US textile investment company in an arbitration before the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) in relation to a joint venture dispute in China.

Represented the largest U.S. entertainment company in a dispute between its domestic company and a business counter-party before the Beijing High Court of Justice

Represented the largest entertainment company in the United States in an arbitration between its domestic company and a business counter-party before the Beijing Arbitration C

Provided legal advice to one of the world's Top 4 accounting firms on the arbitration of its dispute with a Chinese listed company before the Shanghai Branch of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC).

Represented a Chinese company in a joint venture dispute with a German company before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Zurich, Switzerland.

Advised a major Italian cruise ship company in an arbitration before the Shanghai Arbitration Commission.

Provided legal advice to one of Australia's largest investment companies on dispute resolution for their investment projects in China.

Provided legal advice to a leading Chinese telecoms company on the resolution of a " Sino-foreign" joint venture dispute with its joint venture partner.

Represented a Chinese company in an arbitration before the Beijing Arbitration Commission in relation to a contractual dispute with a software company

Represented a large Israeli investment company before all levels of Chinese courts to resolve its joint venture disputes.

Represented one of the world's largest steel product manufacturers in conducting due diligence on a Chinese steel product manufacturer

Represented a large Swedish company in conducting due diligence for the acquisition of the assets of a Chinese company.

Represented a major Australian company in the establishment of a joint venture steel products manufacturing company in China.

Provided legal advice to a large US company manufacturing power tools for the restructuring of its joint venture in China

Provided legal advice to a large German compressor manufacturer on the restructuring of its joint venture in China

Represented a Hong Kong company in the sale of its shareholding in a Chinese company and the assets of the Chinese company to a large German automotive parts manufacturer

Represented a large German automotive parts manufacturer in restructuring its joint venture and total investment in Suzhou.

Provided legal advice to a leading Chinese securities firm in connection with the formation of a joint venture with a leading U.S. securities firm

Provided legal advice to a Chinese project company on the establishment of a waste-to-energy plant in Beijing.

Represented a major US pharmaceutical company in the establishment of a joint venture in Beijing.

Participated in the compliance rectification project of a central state-owned enterprise to cope with multilateral bank sanctions. This is the first project in the energy industry around the world to conform to ISO 37301 for compliance management system in response to multilateral bank sanctions.

Represented a state-owned enterprise in response to an investigation conducted by the African Development Bank for its fraudulent performance in a project financed by the African Development Bank. Assisted the state-owned enterprise in compliance rectification and compliance management system development.

Engaged by a government agency to provide legal and compliance advice in connection with a US government enquiry into Chinese banks' compliance with US economic and trade sanctions and export control compliance obligations.

Provided year-round legal/compliance services to a Chinese bank in relation to U.S. economic and trade sanctions and export controls, and anti-money laundering compliance.

Provided antitrust audit and compliance management system construction services for the world's largest food company.

Provided antitrust audit and compliance management system construction services for the world's largest pet food company.

Provided compliance management consultancy and handled compliance matters for a number of subsidiaries of CSCEC

Provided legal advice to the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on whether a Chinese company is a prohibited subject under US trade sanctions and export controls.

Assisted a U.S.-owned company in initiating an investigation into trade sanctions and export control violations, and issued a legal opinion to plead its case to the U.S. law enforcement agencies in order to obtain a reduction or waiver of the penalties, and assisted the company with compliance rectification.

Risk planning and crisis management for a high-tech company in relation to US trade sanctions and export controls.

Provided legal advice to Volkswagen on cross-border data transfers and antitrust matters.

Provided data security consulting services and difference analysis of data level protection requirements in the Cybersecurity Law for Western Digital, a world-renowned hard drive manufacturer.

Provided compliance audit services to China Communications Import & Export Co.

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