[Member Only] Factory Closures: Environmental Regulations Impact on China Manufacturing

Peter Corne is the Managing Partner of Dorsey’s Shanghai office, and is Co-Head of the Firm’s U.S.-China Practice Group and the Firm’s Clean Technology Practice Group. Qualified to practice in England & Wales, Hong Kong and Australia, Peter leads Dorsey & Whitney’s mainland China offices from his base in Shanghai. Peter specializes in the area of Chinese corporate, commercial and regulatory practice and is recognized as a leading practitioner in the fields of mergers and acquisitions and corporate restructuring.

Gary helps Amazon sellers save time and money when sourcing products from China and to
scale their businesses through his webinars, coaching, and free articles on 80/20 Sourcing.
Gary is based on the ground in Shanghai and has worked with hundreds of Chinese suppliers,
having managed multimillion dollar sourcing campaigns for clients in the US and Latin America.
He sells on Amazon himself, working towards a 7-figure business. Gary also serves as the
Co-Chair of the American Chamber of Commerce's Supply Chain Committee in Shanghai.
Based in Shanghai since 2008, Gary has managed multimillion dollar China sourcing
campaigns for clients in Brazil and the US.
As Director at Hancock International, he lead the China sourcing division. Gary has a wide
industry experience sourcing fashion apparel and accessories, auto parts, solar water heaters,
industrial equipment, exercise equipment, promotional items, electronics, apparel, electric
bicycles, and umbrellas from Chinese manufacturers. I have visited and worked with hundreds
of factories in Zhejiang, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Shandong, Hebei, and Anhui provinces.

Daniel Krassenstein is the Director of Asia Operations for Procon Pacific, LLC (industrial packaging) and has been a supply chain practitioner in Asia & Latin America for 30 years. Dan is a former Governor with the American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai and was also Chair of its Supply Chain Committee.

Dan’s experiences are unique, as he is multilingual (Mandarin & Spanish) and is deep in the trenches of manufacturing in the interior provinces of China – dealing with the day-to-day challenges of labor, production scheduling, vendor certification, quality assurance, infrastructure and logistics.

Prior to the past ten years in Shanghai, Dan was an ocean freight executive for TMM/Mexican Line in Mexico & Panama, a trucking and warehouse director for Inchcape Shanghai and ran marketing and sales for Sea-Land Service in Indonesia, New York City and Chicago.