Employment Essentials for Companies and Talents in the U.S. and China

For businesses and workers alike, entering a new market can bring both significant challenges and opportunities. Establishing a new business in a foreign country requires extensive knowledge of local laws, regulations, and practices, including business formation, hiring, managing, and navigating complex legal and regulatory systems.

Please join us for a virtual panel with two Seattle-based attorneys to discuss key elements of U.S. and Chinese employment laws. The discussion will provide critical insights and perspectives for businesses, entrepreneurs, and workers on doing business in the two largest economies in the world. Our speakers will highlight many of the common mistakes that Chinese companies make managing employees as well as common employment issues that U.S. companies face in their China operations.

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PANELISTS

Xi (Grace) Yang, Of Counsel, Littler Mendelson P.C. (Littler)

Littler is the largest law practice in the world exclusively devoted to representing management in employment, employee benefits and labor law matters. At Littler, Grace primarily focuses on U.S. and China matters, as well as global projects. Grace has considerable experience advising clients on complex employment and international law issues in a wide range of industries. She has served as general outside counsel to many businesses, especially those that have overseas operations or are expanding into foreign legal jurisdictions. She has written extensively about important, cutting-edge employment law issues that may impact multinational employers, including authoring a comprehensive book on employment law in China. Grace is a frequent speaker and instructor on international and employment law.

Grace is a graduate of the Peking University School of Law and the University of Washington School of Law (J.D.). She is a member of the Bar in Washington and New York. 

Yuping Wang, Founding Partner, WYP Law PLLC

Yuping founded WYP Law in October 2022 to fulfill her wishes of helping people and offering affordable legal services to individuals and small/medium sized enterprises, after 30 years of continuous practice, both as an in-house counsel and partner, at Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. At Davis Wright Tremaine, Yuping advised U.S. and Chinese companies on their establishment and operations across the Pacific, and U.S. and Chinese individuals on cross-border investments and family businesses.