On the afternoon of July 13, 2022, the Seminar on Corporate Compliance Construction under the New Economic Normal, jointly sponsored by Stardam Gonghe Law Firm, Southeast University Law School and Nanjing Hexi Central Business District Management Committee, was held in The Nanjing Office of Tianda Republic. The seminar invited experts and scholars such as Ouyang Benqi, dean and doctoral supervisor of Southeast University Law School, Qian Xiaoping, assistant dean and associate professor of Southeast University Law School, Liang Yunbao, director of the Criminal Law Teaching and Research Office of Southeast University Law School and associate professor, Yan Xingzhong, director of the Justice Bureau of Jianye District, Peng Chao, director of the Management Committee of Nanjing Hexi Central Business District, Xu Shu, director of the State-owned Assets Management Office of Nanjing Xuanwu District, and Zhou Lianyong, vice president of Nanjing Lawyers Association and president of Jianye Branch.

The heads of the legal and risk control departments of Jiangsu Enterprises such as Jiangsu Branch of China Three Gorges Group, Jiangsu Energy Investment, Jiangsu Environmental Protection Group, Jinling Hotel Group, Jiangsu Financial Leasing Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Equipment Complete Set Co., Ltd., Jiangsu Jinchuang Financing And Re-guarantee Company and other enterprises in Suzhou were also invited to attend the meeting.

Yan Xingzhong, director of the Justice Bureau of Nanjing Jianye District, said in his speech that corporate compliance has been widely valued by the government and enterprises, and the enterprise compliance pilot in Jiangsu Province is also at the forefront of the country. At present, economic development and social environment are facing unprecedented changes, and the impact on all walks of life is relatively large. To ensure that everything runs on the track of the rule of law, the premise is that the government administers according to law, the enterprise operates in compliance, and it is necessary to shift from after-the-fact compliance to pre-compliance, so as to test the compliance risks in practice, in order to truly protect the legitimate rights and interests of enterprises and promote the healthy development of enterprises.

In his speech, Ouyang Benqi, dean and doctoral supervisor of Southeast University Law School, sorted out the process of corporate compliance reform, pointed out the positive significance of enterprises to build a new compliance management system, and the important role of third-party assessment mechanisms in helping enterprises build compliance systems from the judicial level. President Ouyang pointed out that lawyers can make great achievements in the reform of corporate compliance, not only can participate in national legislation, but also can directly help enterprises to create a full-chain compliance management system that covers the whole chain before and after the event, and can also participate in the assessment of corporate compliance as members of the third-party mechanism.

2022 is the year of strengthening compliance management, whether it is state-owned enterprises or private enterprises, it is the trend of the times to formulate their own compliance systems and establish compliance management systems. Compliance is the cornerstone of long-term peace and stability of enterprises, and it is also a firewall and isolation belt to effectively avoid accountability. In this context, Stardam, Southeast University Law School and Nanjing Hexi Central Business District Management Committee jointly established the Corporate Compliance Research Center and released the first research topic Non-bank Financial Enterprise Compliance Research at the unveiling ceremony. This is also the first time that Southeast University has jointly established a corporate compliance research center with local government agencies and legal service agencies.

Mr. Zhou Wei, a member of the Tianda Republic Management Committee and director of the Nanjing Office, said that the compliance business is one of the traditional core businesses of Thetrist Republic. With a strong compliance business team, with a broad international vision and rich local practical experience, Tianda Gonghe can tailor compliance plans for customers according to customer needs, and provide a full range of compliance legal services, including anti-commercial bribery, anti-monopoly, anti-dumping, network security, data compliance, personal information protection, international trade, labor employment, environmental protection, intellectual property rights, job-related crimes and commercial crimes, etc., to help customers improve compliance control. Effectively reduce various compliance risks that may occur in the course of customers' operations.

At the seminar, guests from all walks of life also made in-depth discussions on topics related to corporate compliance construction, and fully expressed their views on how to guide enterprises to put compliance risks in the forefront, recognize the institutional boundaries and legal foundation between law and punishment, and balance between the pain points of current enterprise production and operation and the difficulties of compliance construction.

At the meeting, Liang Yunbao, director and associate professor of the Criminal Law Department of Southeast University Law School, elaborated on the localization strategy of corporate criminal compliance under the title of ISO37301 and the Localization Exploration of Corporate Criminal Compliance in China, and analyzed the motivations and differences of corporate compliance construction from the perspectives of shareholders and investors, close business stakeholders and the public. Mr. Zhou Wenbo, managing partner of Theptitude Republic Nanjing Office, delivered a keynote speech on Compliance, Always on the Road, analyzing the establishment of the compliance demonstration mechanism and the third-party supervision and evaluation mechanism from the three levels of breadth, depth and height; Li Yan, consultant of The Nanjing Office of Tianda Republic, shared the Knowledge and Practice of Criminal Compliance of State-Owned Enterprises, and analyzed the principles of the construction of the criminal compliance system of state-owned enterprises, the compliance construction of the crisis handling mechanism of state-owned enterprises, and other hot topics of concern to enterprises. Representatives of legal officers from state-owned enterprises also shared their practical experience in the construction and operation of enterprise compliance.

In the future, relying on the Enterprise Compliance Research Center, T&C Will also hold normalized corporate compliance research and exchanges, and carry out special research on state-owned enterprises and private enterprises in different industries such as energy, environmental protection, finance, medicine and health and high-tech according to the characteristics of different enterprises and the development needs of the industry, so as to help enterprises explore practical experience, look forward to business risks, optimize the compliance system, and provide effective decision-making references for the government and enterprises with touchable and landable research results. (The picture and text are transferred from the WeChat public account of Tianda Republic Law Firm)