11 ASIAN LEGAL BUSINESS CHINA • 亚洲法律杂志-中国版 WWW.LEGALBUSINESSONLINE.COM/CHINA COVER STORY Rapid technological updates and the continuous emergence of new industries, new business formats and new business models are inevitably accompanied by corresponding risks and regulatory moves. How to ensure the healthy and safe development of new technology companies has sparked much discussion. Take AIGC as an example. The Interim Administrative Measures for Generative Artificial Intelligence Services issued by the Cyberspace Administration of China and seven ministries and commissions came into effect on Aug. 15, making it the world’s first legal document on AIGC regulation. The burden of supporting and safeguarding business has undoubtedly fallen first on in-house departments, while the tussle among business needs, innovation needs and compliance needs is constantly changing the growth trajectory of new technology in-house teams. IN-HOUSE TEAMS This year’s 15 winning in-house technology teams come from 15 different industry segments, including e-commerce, healthcare, online education, Internet finance, logistics, and other service companies. They also encompass companies in primary and secondary industries closely related to technology, such as agricultural technology innovation, smart manufacturing, and metamaterial technology and manufacturing. Geographically, six winners are headquartered in the Yangtze River Delta region and the Beijing-Tianjin region, while another three are based in the Pearl River Delta region. Regarding headcount, the in-house teams of five companies consist of five to ten members, while another five teams have 11 to 20 members. Two winning companies each have an in-house team of 20 to 30 people, and the remaining three companies boast an in-house team with 50 to 100 members. Only four winning companies established their in-house teams before 2015, with the remaining 11 teams all set up between 2015 and 2020. The winners this year have gone through a very similar growth journey. In particular, for teams belonging to “startups”, those companies initially often had only one in-house counsel to perform relatively traditional and limited work alone. As new technology companies continue to mature and technologies and products undergo rapid iteration, needs for compliance, investment and financing, intellectual property, dispute resolution, etc., grow rapidly. Accordingly, in-house teams are constantly expanding, and their importance is increasingly prominent. Regardless of their size or history, all winning teams this year have a robust professional setup and can cover comprehensive functions. Beijing Calorie Information Technology Co., Ltd., the developer of the sports tech brand Keep, set up its in-house department in 2018, and the team currently has 11 members. “Although our team is not big, it is very streamlined, capable, and ‘fit,’” says Liang Min, its legal director. According to Liang, vertically, Keep’s in-house team has set up legal BP groups to be responsible for the full range of legal services needed by each business line, such as contract review, advisory, training, etc. Horizontally, the team is divided into IP, litigation, and investment and financing groups to cover the entire company’s business, with clear divisions of tasks for patent, trademark, copyright, domain name, infringement monitoring, litigation and rights protection, investment and financing, etc. Du Xiaoman Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd, which empowers financial services through technology, set up its legal and compliance department in 2018. According to Xing Jing, the general manager of the department, “the Legal and Compliance Department currently has business BP teams and functional BP teams. Specifically, business teams vertically support credit, wealth management, payment, insurance, fintech, and supply chain operations, while the functional teams horizontally manage labor administration, investment and financing, consumer rights protection, business seals and licenses, IP, anti-money laundering, data compliance, and corporate security. Business teams and functional teams support each other. On the one hand, functional teams strengthen centralized management and optimize AliExpress - Legal Department 全球速卖通 – 法务部 Align APAC Legal & Compliance 爱齐亚太区法务合规部 Beijing Calorie Information Technology Co., Ltd. Legal Department 北京卡路里信息技术有限公司法务部 Legal Kanyun 看云控股法务部 Beijing Kuangshi Technology Co.,Ltd Legal Affairs Department 北京旷视科技有限公司法务部 Bojiang Group Limited Compliance Department 博将集团有限公司合规部 China Tianchen Engineering Corporation Legal Affairs Dept 中国天辰工程有限公司法律合规部 Du Xiaoman Legal and Compliance Department 度小满法律合规部 Department of Legal & Intellectual Property, Foxconn Industrial Internet Co., Ltd. 富士康工业互联网股份有限公司法 务智权处 G7 Connect Inc. Legal Affairs Department G7易流集团法律事务部 Legal Affairs Department, Huizhou Desay SV Automotive Co., Ltd. 惠州市德赛西威汽车电子股份有限公 司法务部 Legal Department of Insilico Medicine 英矽智能法务部 Legal Center, Kuang-Chi Technologies Co. Ltd. 光启技术股份有限公司法务中心 Legal Department, Shanghai Junzheng Network Technology Co., Ltd. 上海哈啰普惠科技有限公司法务部 Legal & Compliance Department, Syngenta Group China 先正达集团中国法律合规部
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