Foreign Director Crisis Checklist for China
When a foreign director faces a travel restriction, police contact or personal exposure, speed and a truthful controlled record matter more than improvisation.
Crisis switch
Preparing the director-risk file? Review documents, counsel contacts and company-control contingencies.
Identify the legal family, preserve the record and separate personal defence from company continuity.
Collect the official papers and case identifiers, engage appropriate local counsel, establish one headquarters communications owner, preserve devices and records, and run the company-control workstream in parallel.
Stabilise the personal and company position.
The sequence is orientation only; an active police, court or exit matter requires immediate local advice.
Record who made contact, what authority is involved, the case or document number, location, time and stated legal basis. Do not speculate or destroy records.
Do not destroy phones, messages, accounting files or other relevant evidence. Do not coach witnesses or issue public explanations before counsel has reconciled the facts and legal process.
Run four tracks without collapsing them together.
Different authorities and consequences require different counsel and evidence.
Civil enforcement and exit restriction
Judgment, debt, court, written basis, settlement and security options.
Criminal or administrative exposure
Police contact, interviews, medical or prescription evidence and personal rights.
Immigration and consular issues
Passport, residence, work permit, exit-entry consequences and appropriate consular contact.
Company control and communications
Chops, bank credentials, interim authority, records and approved messaging.
Build the director-risk folder.
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Source station
Use the maintained director-risk source collection and issue-specific guides.
Open the route matching the legal family.
Do not use a criminal response for a civil-enforcement problem or vice versa.
Foreign Director Exit Bans
Use for court or enforcement-linked travel restrictions.
Open specialist route →02 · Criminal routeChina Criminal Defence Guide
Use for police contact or criminal exposure.
Open specialist route →03 · Company routeWFOE Operations and Control
Use for chops, bank access and interim authority.
Open specialist route →Obtain local advice when liberty, travel or official process is live.
This checklist cannot predict or resolve an individual outcome.
Travel is restrictedA court, enforcement or exit-entry measure prevents departure.
Police contact occursAn interview, summons, detention or investigation is active.
Company control is impairedThe appointee cannot sign, access banking or manage records.
Educational information only — not legal advice. Laws, deadlines and local practice can change; obtain fact-specific advice from qualified PRC counsel.
