VDMA Info Day - Environmental Enforcement

Mr Uwe Hanschke | Senior Expert, H2O GmbH
He has more than 25 years’ experience in industrial wastewater treatment and recycling technologies. As a senior chemist he developed several copper and nickel recycling systems from waste streams in Germany, UK based and SE Asian companies. Beside membrane and oxidation technologies he also worked in the field of oil recovery from oil/water mixtures and emulsion by vacuum distillation. Since July 2015 he is responsible for the Chinese market and the General Manager of H2O (Kunshan) Water Treatment Equipment Co. Ltd. with the focus on zero effluent discharge processes for companies in China, which struggle from stringent effluent discharge limits or have no chance to discharge wastewater at all.

Mr. Martin Ng is managing partner of WTS China.
He has 28 years’ experience in professional service, with 4 years in management consultancy and 24 years in China tax consultancy experience. He is a business and tax advisor to multinational companies, a guest speaker to universities and a trainer to tax bureaus. He was a former tax partner in a Big 4 accounting firm before his retirement in 2014.

Dr. Jakob Riemenschneider heads the Hong Kong office of international law firm Taylor Wessing. He assists European and Chinese clients with their cross-continental investments and business activities. Qualified as lawyer and tax advisor in Germany, he seeks to provide practical solutions with a view to law, finance and taxation.
In the firm’s China Group, Jakob is responsible for the industry sectors Environmental Technologies, Agriculture & Food.
Jakob studied law in Germany, the UK and China. He did his doctorate with a thesis on Chinese credit law. After being admitted as lawyer in 2005, Jakob practised corporate and financial law in Shanghai. Before joining Taylor Wessing he worked with the management team of a German auditing and consulting firm.
Jakob is author and co-author of specialist books on Chinese law including Chinese contract law. He speaks German, English and Mandarin.

A German qualified lawyer and tax advisor, he assists European and Asian clients with their cross-continental investments and business activities including acquisitions, international expansion projects, and corporate restructuring. In the China Group of Taylor Wessing, Jakob Riemenschneider is responsible for Environmental Technologies, Food & Agriculture.