Company: ZLAB
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001628280-25-008409
Chunk: 125

Company: Zai Lab Ltd
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
Chunk 125
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 of their gender, nationality, marital status, age, disability, or religious beliefs.   

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Our worldwide teams are united by a common mission to improve human health. We strive to maintain a good working relationship with our employees. We are committed to encouraging a culture of open communication where employees can ask questions, raise concerns, and contribute creative solutions. Our management team routinely makes themselves available to all employees, including in regular town hall events that encourage open dialogue. None of our employees are represented by a labor union or covered by a collective bargaining agreement, and we have not experienced any material work stoppages or labor disputes. 

Risk Management 

We are committed to acting ethically, which includes identifying and responsibly managing risk. As a result, we have adopted a consolidated risk management methodology and program, which includes three lines of defense for risk management that identify, assess, evaluate, and monitor key risks associated with our strategic objectives on an on-going basis. We have also established a risk governance structure that includes oversight by the Board of Directors, the Audit Committee, and management. Management oversight includes a Risk Coordination Council that is comprised of leaders of governance and quality functions along with operational line leaders and serves as a forum to discuss and monitor risks across the organization as well as other regional, divisional, or functional risk management committees or working groups, as deemed appropriate. 

We conduct an annual enterprise risk assessment to identify our top tier risks and, based on that assessment, will develop an enterprise risk management strategy and plans to manage those risks. Our risk management strategy takes into account various factors including our corporate strategic goals and objectives, our risk tolerance levels and thresholds, and applicable legal and regulatory requirements. We also develop and implement risk strategies for new or evolving risks during the year, as deemed appropriate. Management discusses with the Board of Directors or the Audit Committee the results of its annual enterprise risk assessments as well as its enterprise risk management methodology and guidelines and key risk-related developments. 

The following provides additional information on our three lines of defense: 

•First Line of Defense: Our business functions are primarily responsible for identifying and evaluating risks in their areas of responsibility and for developing and implementing a risk management program, including appropriate controls and procedures, to monitor, manage, and communicate to management key information with respect to these risks. Such risk management program should be consistent with our corporate business objectives and should adhere to risk policies, controls, and guidelines established by management and the Board of Directors or Audit Committee, including risk tolerance levels. Our business functions are also responsible for monitoring ongoing