Harry TAO (Partner at Kneppelhout & Hui Ye Law)

Harry TAO

Partner at Kneppelhout & Hui Ye Law

Harry Tao graduated from Sichuan University (LLB) and Emory University with LLM degree. After graduation, he worked as an associate at the New York law firm Liu, Zheng, Chen & Hoffman LLP, and as a corporate legal counsel at Shanghai Alain Bio-technology Co. Harry Tao joined Huiye Law Firm in 2019. Harry Tao focuses his practice on labour and human resources, dispute resolution and corporate practice.
In the field of labor and human resources law, Harry has accumulated a great deal of contentious and non-contentious experience through his long-term representation in labour arbitration and litigation, including representing clients in labour negotiation, employee relationship management, dispatch and dismissal of executive officers, designing employee lay off plans, handling non-competition and trade secret disputes, drafting, reviewing and revising rules and regulations and other labour law documents. Harry Tao also has rich innovative and successful experience in handling major and critical matters such as employee fraud and malpractice investigations, corporate control disputes, emergency responses and etc.
In the field of civil and commercial litigation and dispute resolution, Harry Tao represents and provides constructive solutions to various types of civil and commercial disputes, such as disputes over sales contracts, contracts for hired work, torts, equity transfer, liability for damage to the interests of corporate creditors, private lending and etc.
After joining Huiye Law Firm, Harry Tao has rendered high quality legal services to a number of multinational corporations and large and medium-sized domestic corporate clients, and has served many well-known domestic and international corporate clients, including but not limited to Ant Group, Bosch, Shanghai Electric Group, Shanghai Baosteel Group, Shanghai Huayu Automobile, Zimmer Biomet, Continental, Bridgestone, PPG, DuPont, Dusit Thailand, Johnson Electric, Victoria Secret, Envision, Amore Pacific, Sephora, and many other well-known companies.
Working Language: Mandarin and English.
Representative Matters / Transactions:
• Represented a Sino-foreign JVC in a labor dispute, and successfully dismissed the employee's claim for unlawful termination;
• Represented a foreign private hospital in a non-compete case with its departing employees, winning the case and obtaining liquidated damages for the hospital;
• Represented a senior executive of a pharmaceutical company in a labor dispute against the company, and successfully found that the company committed unlawful termination;
• Overseas dispatch program for executives of a German-owned manufacturing company;
• Company’s organizational restructuring and relocation project for a U.S. security company;
• Early dissolution and layoff of Shanghai factory for a foreign logistics company;
• Relocation & transfer over 10,000 employees of an insurance company;
• Anti-fraud and personnel compliance investigation for a foreign-owned chemical company;
• Investigation of workplace bullying for a multinational insurance company.