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Haiyan Cai

Haiyan Cai

Legal adviser/Head of immigration

Languages
  • Chinese
  • English
  • French

Haiyan Cai joined CMS Paris in 2017.

Haiyan was among the first generation of legal advisers to aid Chinese outbound investments to get started in France. 
Haiyan graduated with degrees in Customs Practice and a Master in Law.  She joined the China desk of DS Avocats in 2003 where she was assigned to Chinese Greenfield investments.

She works to assure legal services in international mobility for top international managers and their families.

With 20 years of field experience, she designs and implements the immigration policies and methods with our Labor Law, Social Security Law and Tax Law specialists to ensure a one-stop service.

She is a frequent lecturer to promote the French investment environment for foreign companies, which bridges people, languages and cultures.

With a comprehensive view of the problems that investors might encounter, she offers effective and time-saving solutions.
She has extensive experience servicing Chinese and other international companies listed in Fortune’s Global 500.

Relevant experience

  • President of Jury/program sponsor of ESSEC business school supply chain Master (GAISC) – ‘doing business with China’ (2020-2023)
  • DS Avocats Law Firm paralegal and legal adviser (2003-2017)

Publications

  • Short term missions ‘Doing Business guide’ -  Business France (03/2015)
  • Mobilité internationale : point d’actualité pour les employeurs étrangers détachant des travailleurs en France - Les Echos Exécutives (16/04/2018) - International mobility: news item for foreign employers posting workers to France
  • Brexit: what about UK citizens working in France? - CMS (26/03/2019)
  • Intégration d'un talent étranger en France : quelles nouveautés ? - Les Echos Exécutives (22/05/2019) - Integration of foreign talent in France: what's new?
  • The ins and outs of Brexit - Employment and tax aspects - Webinar (06/06/2019)
  • Détachement transnational de salariés : le rôle du donneur d'ordre renforcé pour lutter contre le travail illégal - Les Echos Exécutives (31/07/2019) - Transnational posting of employees: the role of the principal strengthened to combat illegal employment
  • Brexit: What About UK Citizens Working In France? (21/01/2020)
  • Covid-19 et gestion des salariés non européens arrivant en France - Les Echos Exécutives (08/07/2020) - Covid-19 and management of non-EU employees arriving in France
  • Salariés européens travaillant sur le territoire national : l'importance de détenir un formulaire A1 en cours de validité - Les Echos Exécutives (16/12/2020) - European employees working in France: the importance of holding a valid A1 form
  • Détachement transnational de salariés, la DGT publie une instruction pour clarifier les règles applicables – CMS (26/02/2021) - Transnational posting of employees, the DGT publishes an instruction to clarify the applicable rules
  • Autorisations de travail et titres de séjour : quelles sont les dernières nouveautés à connaître ? Les Echos Exécutives (03/06/2021) – Work authorisations and residence permits: what are the latest news to know ?

Lectures list

  • 2022 : Webinar Invest in France – Business France
  • 2019 : "Les nouveautés en droit des étrangers en France : une immigration maîtrisée, une intégration réussie" (New developments in the law on foreigners in France: controlled immigration, successful integration)
  • 2019 : Webinar ‘The ins and outs of Brexit – employment and tax aspects’
  • 2013 : Invest in France (AFII club) expert in professional immigration
  • 2012 : Invest in Lille agency expert in professional immigration
  • 2011 : conference on expatriation and secondment at DS Law firm

Education

  • Master in Law and Customs Practices - Paris Descartes University (2007)

 

Insights by Haiyan

Brexit: publication of a Q&A related to social security issues

14 Dec 2020 6 min read

Brexit: applicable rules in France for British citizens and their family starting on 1 January 2021

03 Dec 2020 9 min read

COVID-19 and immigration issues

10 Apr 2020 5 min read

Coronavirus: What are the employer’s obligations under French labour law when facing the threat of an epidemic?

21 Feb 2020 7 min read
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