Administration of the several Chinese entities a family-controlled group ends up holding, run as one engagement rather than several unconnected ones.
What this covers
- An inventory of every Chinese entity the group holds, with its registration status and filing obligations confirmed rather than assumed
- One consolidated compliance calendar covering all of them
- Governance administration — registers, resolutions, filed changes — kept current across the group
- Dormant and legacy entities reviewed, so an unused vehicle is either kept properly or wound down deliberately
- A single point of contact accountable for the group as a whole
- Periodic group-level status reporting to the family's principals
- Board and shareholder resolutions drafted, executed, and filed to the group's own governance calendar
- Related-party and intra-group arrangements documented as they are entered into, not reconstructed later
Our services
Every entity the group actually holdsAn inventory confirmed against the register, not reconstructed from memory.
A family-controlled group rarely holds a single Chinese entity. It accumulates them — an operating company, a holding vehicle, a property-holding entity, something set up years ago for a project that has since changed shape — each with its own registration, filing calendar, and governance record, often established at different times through different agents with nothing shared between them.
One consolidated compliance calendarEvery entity's obligations tracked in one place rather than per-relationship.
Treating each of those as an isolated relationship reproduces the exact coordination gap the family is usually trying to escape: one entity's deadline is tracked because someone happens to own it, another quietly is not, because nobody is looking at the group as a whole.
Legacy and dormant entities addressedAn unused vehicle either kept properly or wound down deliberately, not left to drift.
Legacy entities are where this concentrates. A vehicle that stopped being used but was never wound down still carries filing obligations, and the first sign that it has been quietly non-compliant for years is usually a problem somewhere else in the group — a blocked change, a rating that affects a sibling entity. We inventory what actually exists before proposing a calendar for it.
Decisions evidenced, not rememberedResolutions produced and filed on a calendar rather than reconstructed on demand.
Governance in a family-held group is usually informal until the moment it cannot be. Decisions get made in conversation, an entity's registers stop being updated, and intra-group arrangements run for years on an understanding nobody wrote down — and none of that is a problem until a bank, a regulator, a counterparty, or an incoming family member asks the entity to evidence how it actually decided something.
Registers current across the groupGovernance records maintained on every entity, with legal and tax judgment left to your own advisors.
We maintain this governance layer across the group's entities: resolutions produced and filed on a calendar, registers kept current, and intra-group arrangements documented as they happen. Where a governance question turns on a legal or tax judgment — whether an arrangement is defensible, how a transfer should be treated — that goes to the family's own qualified advisors, and we administer the outcome rather than forming the view.
Why choose HainanInc?
One consolidated calendar across every entity in the group
One accountable team, not one agent per entity
Periodic group-level reporting to the family's principals
Case study
Restoring Good Standing After a Lapsed Registration
A foreign-owned entity's registered address had changed without the corporate register being updated, and a routine regulatory notice went unanswered as a result. By the time the gap surfaced, the entity's standing was in question and a pending contract required proof of good standing within weeks.
Composite illustration based on common engagement patterns; not a specific client.
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All Entity Management and Governance services
- Annual Compliance Programme
- Compliance and Governance
- Regulatory Reporting and Entity Health Checks
- Corporate Services
- Beneficial Ownership and Registry Filings
- Legal Representative and Director Duties
- Ownership Changes and Transaction Filings
- Multi-Entity and Family Group Administration
- Cross-Border Data Transfers
- Deregistration and Entity Exit
Our services
Our practice areas cover the whole life of a presence in Hainan — from the market-entry assessment made before anything is filed, through formation, tax incentives, customs and zero-tariff compliance, and annual compliance, to the work permits, outbound investment, and deregistration around it. One engagement model means a single accountable team across all of them.
