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Jing Gou

London,London
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Jing Gou

Summary

As a qualified lawyer in China, Jing is an experienced legal and compliance profession who has over 15 years' working experiences in the insurance industry in China. She was ever married with one son.

Since 2007, Jing started to work for some well-known international finance groups such as AXA, RSA, Willis and HSBC. She demonstrated good ability of organizing, communicating and independently and hardly working together with her expertise's skills and knowledges of legal document review, lawsuit handling, compliance advisory, risk assessment and monitoring, board secretary.

She obtained domestic bachelor and master of law degrees before May 2006 and did legal practices in the economic and civil court, law firms and companies.

Due to she mainly worked for foreign-capital invested companies in China and worked in the language of English, she had been working in the international professional surroundings and dealing with communications and advisories between different cultures and backgrounds.

In recent 3 years, she paused legal practices in Shanghai and devoted herself into studying UK law and regulations in the commercial law center of Queen Mary Univeristy of London and was awarded with master of law degree.

Overview

21
years of professional experience
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Genome Development Limited, Cambridge University Subsidiary, Cambridge, United Kingdom

Regulatory Analyst for Regulation Technology
02.2023 - 04.2023

Job overview

  • The company is a subordinate of Cambridge University which is collaborating to develop and support the adoption of an open information structure to enable the organization and comparative analysis of financial regulations across jurisdictions.
  • I participated the project of regulatory analyst and technology to apply knowledge of laws and regulations applicable to financial industries.
  • This is a remote working within my UK student visa permission, I supported the workstream to further understand the worldwide laws and regulation applicable to corporate governance, prior preparation for ESG and insurance regulations. The work results were used for enhance the computer's researching results and used for linking to the taxonomies.
  • Although my participations to the project were drawn line before my exam period, but I have supported the corporate governance project to solve more than half of laws and regulation created for the taxonomy for computer languages. In the meanwhile, this working experiences enriched myself with further understanding of the creation procedure by technology and automations of law and regulatory rules.

Bourgeon Law Firm, Shanghai, China

Lawyer
11.2021 - 08.2022

Job overview

  • Before enrolling in education in the university, I registered and maintained the lawyer professional license in this firm. I cooperated two lawyers in this firm to aim for developing potential business opportunities in shipping, insurance industries and other general corporates.
  • Lawsuits practices: one civil case-leasing and operating agreement dispute, bankruptcy procedure.

Beijing Jun Du Law Firm Shanghai Office, Shanghai, China

Lawyer
11.2020 - 06.2021

Job overview

  • Independently managed 6 annually contained corporate clients' daily legal affairs.
  • Teamed together with other junior lawyers to serve high volume client which was a technology and consultancy company. I was responsible for on-site presence at the client's office once per week.
  • This is a full-time licensed lawyer job. I worked in a hybrid way of home and office. The main works were reviewing contracts for corporate clients, providing legal or compliance review for outstanding debts and assets management projects, new entrepreneurs' business strategies.
  • Published Article: Legal and Compliance Advice for Coping With the Legislation Movement Regarding with 2021 Online Insurance Administrative Measures, Insurance Practices and Theory Journal Vol 3, 2021, Insurance Society of China.

HSBC Life Insurance Limited Company, Shanghai, China

Senior Regulatory Compliance Manager
05.2018 - 08.2019

Job overview

  • The company is majorly held by the HSBC group and the compliance function is independently and adhering to the group's governance and policies of the group whose head office in the London and Hongkong. I was the team leader of products and sales compliance division in head office who -
  • Led team members to intervene inappropriate business practices for reducing potential regulatory risks.
  • Took responsibility for products and sales compliance reviews: supervise and endorse seven team members' daily approvals on products filing, sales campaigns, sales staff training materials.
  • Be consulted by regulatory risk stakeholders and interpreted regulations to them.
  • Be involved with business lines and worked together with BRCM, Risk committee, Legal department to review or evaluate China business or group's cross-borders' operative projects.
  • Dealt with internal and external regulatory contacting, communications and interpret regulation movement to the business team.
  • Delivered compliance judgement and advice to business partner, management team.
  • Contributed suggestions to tackle with potential regulatory incidents or problems.

Willis International Limited Company, Shanghai , China

Counsel, China
09.2014 - 11.2017

Job overview

  • Worked and acted together with compliance team to assure contractual activities reflected agreed risk appetites.
  • Identified core legal risks and performed top ten legal matters management.
  • Meet tight deadlines for reviewing high volume of daily business contracts.
  • Handled intensive employment lawsuits and complains during merging and restructuring period.
  • Supported colleagues and collected vital evidences to backup external lawyers to successfully settled down two high amounts claimants: 500 million dollars marine insurance brokerage contract lawsuit, 10 million RMB consultancy contract lawsuit.
  • Managed and communicated with CFO and CEO to plan budgets and costs efficiently.
  • Kept weekly catch-up with supervisors and other oversea colleagues for cross-border collaborations.
  • Demonstrated efficient problem-solving and tasks-solving ability within limited manpower.

Royal Sun Alliance Insurance Limited, Shanghai, China

Manager of Legal, Compliance and Risk Department
02.2012 - 08.2014

Job overview

  • The company is currently known as Swiss Re Corporate Solutions. I was the approved and registered Chief Compliance Officer for the China Company when it was known as Royal Sun Alliance under the legal and regulatory framework of UK and China.
  • I was in charge of China risk committee and members of other expertise committees reporting to the board. I was also the acting board secretary to call for quarterly meetings, draft and prepare meeting agendas, memorandums, resolutions proposals, elaborating regulatory duties or reporting to the regulator for the Board Chairman.
  • As the manager of this department, I supervised my four team members and was responsible for the functions of this department. The team delivered daily incoming regulatory reports and communications with regulators, reviewing insurance clauses for the underwriters and providing other legal, compliance and risk advisory supports to the business.
  • In the duration, I demonstrated strong ability to communicate law and regulatory requirements to executive team and persuaded stakeholders to focus on implementing legal and compliance requirements, as well as kept resilience to work under pressure when solving crises and work out mitigation plans to tackle with regulatory on-site inspection within stressful timetable.

Winterthur Insurance (Asia) Ltd.co Shanghai Branch, Shanghai, China

Legal and Compliance Manager, Compliance Officer
07.2007 - 02.2012

Job overview

  • Winterthur Insurance which was merged by the AXA Group. I worked there when the shanghai company was taken over by AXA General Insurance and corporate solutions. I started from the legal and compliance officer role in the CEO office and gradually organized the legal and compliance department.
  • As the appointed and approved chief compliance officer by the company and registered in the regulator, I led two members to handle incoming and outgoing regulatory documents, insurance products fillings, associated reinsurance transactions regulatory approvals and other daily routine works.
  • Developed and implement internal control process to adapt for business modes changes or regulation changes such as policy booking platform and IT system mitigations, implementing requirements by AML, sanctions, anti-fraud control policies, the group's ethics and compliance conducts and so on.
  • Worked closely with actuary, underwriting directors on reinsurance schemes, pricing and clauses to achieve insurance products governance goals;
  • Partnered with sales and distribution department head to create internal prior review and approvals on cooperated agencies and brokers to achieve management goals;
  • Demonstrated outstanding ability to identify and address crucial risks to the management team and well business awareness to collaborate with underwriters upon property insurance products development.

Wal-Mart & Trust-Mart Consultancy Company, Shanghai, China

Senior Legal Officer
07.2006 - 07.2007

Job overview

  • The company is retailed supermarket brand in China which was purchased by the top supermarket brand, Wal-malt. I worked before and after the merging period.
  • As the senior legal officer in the head office in the shanghai, I often on behalf of the company to attend on court or bring out lawsuits against vendors or suppliers which failed to execute the signed agreements.
  • Worked together with corporate communication team to update and draft Articles of Associations to support the opening new branches or closing unprofitable branches.
  • Partnered with internal auditing and investigating team to resolved employee's fraud, bribery and other violations;
  • Cooperated with Walmart legal team to complete relevant documents relating to the integrations and complying with FCPA policies.
  • Lawsuits: Trademark issue caused by supplying chains, Commercial Leasing agreement, Purchase Agreement.

Province Advanced Court, Scheme, Shan Dong Province Advanced Court, Qingdao, China

Trainee of Judge
07.2002 - 08.2003

Job overview

  • Worked for commerce and economic courtroom and civil courtroom;
  • Audited leading judge's trail and provided assistances to them;
  • Under the supervision from senior judge, prepared and draft summon orders, meditating document and interviewing documentaries;
  • Experienced procedures to deal with disputes including outstanding debts, company's bankrupt, motor insurances, real estate financing and ownerships etc.

Education

Queen Mary University of London , London

Master of Law from LLM
09.2022 - 09.2023

University Overview

I completed my courses and was awarded the master degree of law. The program included focus and intensive modules regarding with the UK and international insurance laws and regulations and another parts of legal practices modules. I learned knowledge on insurance rulebooks such as FCA, PAR, EU Directives, solvency requirements, forward thinking on climate changes and regulatory tech reporting, AI regulations, as well as international insurance standards, UK Marine Insurance law, international risk transferring and reinsurance transactions from this program. In the part of general legal practices courses, I learned commercial advocacy skills, legal techs including smart contracts, online disputes, legal ops, legal design thinking and how to write ten thousands words of dissertation in English. I did particularly well in the prepared presentation test and written case assessment in marine insurance course and earned distinction grade in legal tech.

Besides that, I finished language courses such as story telling, critical thinking and writing languages, and legal researching, seminar skills, as well as attending a series of employability courses of project management, interpersonal skills. In the one year's studying, I volunteered english teaching and pro bono legal clinic and worked parttimely for a financial regualtory laws and regualtions project upon topices of corporate governance and insurance regualtions.

Dalian Maritime University , Dalian

Master of Law from International Law
09.2003 - 04.2006

University Overview

I obtained the master of law degree and postgraduate diploma in April 2006. This studies provided knowledge and skills around international law. I selected the maritime law relevant subjects as my specialty which was not particularly included in my bachelor of law degree and continued the further studies about international commercial and business law, civil law, maritime carriage of contract, Chartparty and ect.

Northwestern Politics And Law University , Xi An

Bachelor Degree of Law from International Economic Law
09.1998 - 07.2002

University Overview

I obtained bachelor degree in law in 2002 which was four-years courses. I studied fundamental law courses such legal theory, logics and another two years of subjective and procedural laws study covering criminal, civil, family and inherit law, commercial and international trade and arbitration.Majority distinctioned grades were related to international economic law (GATTS and other WTO rules, disputes resolutions) and earned 90+/100 scores in core couses and I met graduated criterias at the end of year three.

Skills

  • International personal skills
  • Project management skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presenting
  • Strong communications
  • Critical analysis and thinking
  • Teamwork and leadership
  • Licensed lawyer's relevant skills of drafting and writing documents, advocating disputes, consulting to projects and matters, managing potential legal risks
  • Compliance relevant skills of planning, monitoring, mitigating, reporting
  • Board Secretary skills of meeting arrangement, circulating and writing
  • Microsoft office Suites (word, excel, and power point)

Additional Information

Dentons Poplaw placement at Poplar clinic in London, May 2023.

Empower women language teaching project at ESOL Café in the Fern Street Family Center.

Languages

English
Fluent
Chinese (Mandarin)
Native
Japanese
Beginner
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Timeline

Regulatory Analyst for Regulation Technology

Genome Development Limited, Cambridge University Subsidiary
02.2023 - 04.2023

Queen Mary University of London

Master of Law from LLM
09.2022 - 09.2023

Lawyer

Bourgeon Law Firm
11.2021 - 08.2022

Lawyer

Beijing Jun Du Law Firm Shanghai Office
11.2020 - 06.2021

Senior Regulatory Compliance Manager

HSBC Life Insurance Limited Company
05.2018 - 08.2019

Counsel, China

Willis International Limited Company
09.2014 - 11.2017

Manager of Legal, Compliance and Risk Department

Royal Sun Alliance Insurance Limited
02.2012 - 08.2014

Legal and Compliance Manager, Compliance Officer

Winterthur Insurance (Asia) Ltd.co Shanghai Branch
07.2007 - 02.2012

Senior Legal Officer

Wal-Mart & Trust-Mart Consultancy Company
07.2006 - 07.2007

Dalian Maritime University

Master of Law from International Law
09.2003 - 04.2006

Trainee of Judge

Province Advanced Court, Scheme, Shan Dong Province Advanced Court
07.2002 - 08.2003

Northwestern Politics And Law University

Bachelor Degree of Law from International Economic Law
09.1998 - 07.2002
Jing Gou