Date

15 July 2022 (Friday)

Time

2.00 pm to 4.00 pm (CST) / 7.00 am to 9.00 am (BST)

Venue

Offline: 3A Conference Room, 3/F, Yue Shang Plaza, 1 Wu Ning Road South, Jing An District, Shanghai, China

Online: Zoom Webinar (conference ID and password to be provided)

Event Agenda

1.      Sign In

2.       Introduction to Jersey as An International Finance Centre

3.       Setting up A Trust or Foundation in Mainland China?

4.       Tea Break

5.       Setting up A Trust or Foundation in the International Finance Centre of Jersey?

6.       Q & A Session

Profile of Speaker

Maria McDermott

Business Development Consultant - Asia, Jersey Finance

Fellow of the Association of the Chartered Certified Accountants

Associate Member of the Chartered Governance Institute

Maria McDermott is from Jersey and has over twenty years’ experience working in the international finance industry. She is experienced in investment funds, private wealth, compliance, risk management and project management, and has been based in Asia for the last ten years having transferred to Hong Kong to develop the fiduciary services business of a leading offshore law firm. During her time in Asia she has also worked for various listed entities and financial service providers in Singapore and Shanghai, and is now based full time in Shanghai. Prior to her time in Asia, she spent over ten years working for a number of law firms and fiduciary service providers in Jersey.

Nancy Chien

Partner, Head of International Private Client, Bedell Cristin Law Firm

Lawyer Admitted in Jersey, BVI, England & Wales and New Zealand

Nancy Chien is head of Bedell Cristin's International Private Client practice. She is ranked as a leading individual in Legal 500.

Nancy has over twenty years of experience in a wide range of offshore matters in both the private client area as well as the corporate sphere.  She is legally qualified in 4 jurisdictions, being Jersey, BVI, England and Wales and New Zealand. In the private client context, she advises ultra-high net worth families, family offices and intermediaries on all aspects of private client structuring including the use of trusts and foundations, as well as related corporate law issues (including where such vehicles are used for philanthropic purposes). She has considerable experience with high value and complex structures which enable the clients to retain a degree of control over their family assets and achieve effective succession planning. In the corporate area, she is one of the only Jersey lawyers with specific experience in pensions and employee incentive arrangements (having previously worked in the employee incentives and pensions team at Ashurst in London). She is the chairperson of the Jersey Pensions Association and is working closely with the Jersey government to enhance Jersey's offering of end of service gratuity plans and international savings vehicles. Nancy also has considerable experience in regulatory matters affecting offshore vehicles and service providers, including FATCA, the common reporting standard (CRS) and data protection.

Working Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese and English

Ellen Xie

Founder and Managing Director of Shanghai Hui Xiao Law Group

Lawyer Admitted in China and US (California)

Member of CPA Australia

Professional Member of ATTA

Ellen Xie, is Founder and Managing Director of Shanghai Hui Xiao Law Group, Lawyer Admitted in China and California (US), Member of CPA Australia and Professional Member of ATTA.  She has more than 20 years’ work experience with several leading international and domestic law firms and multi-national companies (including Fortune Global 500s) as mergers & acquisitions, corporate and commercial transactions, intellectual property as well as labor legal consultant. She has good experience in providing effective legal and compliance solutions to multinational companies in various industries, wealth creators and riches in the areas of mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, corporate governance, compliance, labor and employment, data protection, intellectual property, dispute resolution as well as private wealth & fiduciary etc., and with the industries of clients served including but not limited to Pharmaceuticals, Medical Devices, Consumer Healthcare, Contract Research Organizations, Foods & Nutrition, Agricultural Products, Conventional Energy, E-Commerce, Commercial & Retails, Purchasing/Buyer, Chemical Products, Automobile Parts, Mechanical Manufacturing, Civil & Commercial Aviation, Global Sourcing, Bank, Insurance, Hi-Tech, Renewable Energy, Tobacco, Woods, Luxury Goods, Property Management and Leasing, Cruise Tourism, Logistics, Sportswear, Architecture & Construction, Testing, Advertisement & Media, Human Resources, Consulting Services and Charity as well as International Private Clients.

Working Languages: Mandarin, Taiwanese, English and Basic Korean.

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Event Contact

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