CHINA Trends and Developments
Trends and Developments Contributed by: Kate Yin, Sherman Deng, Yanjun Zhuang and Patrick Guo Fangda Partners Fangda Partners (FD) was founded in 1993 and stands as a pre-eminent, full-service law firm fo - cused on the Greater China market, with its expertise in local regulatory frameworks highly recognised by both clients and regulators. FD has a team of over 800 lawyers across seven offices in Beijing, Guang - zhou, Hong Kong, Nanjing, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Singapore. It has long been the adviser of choice for numerous clients seeking sophisticated counsel on complex legal matters. When embarking on ma -
jor transactions, a multitude of leading Chinese and global enterprises, as well as financial institutions, en - gage its services to obtain expert advice and tailored solutions for their most intricate, challenging legal is - sues. Over the past three decades, FD has remained at the forefront of commercial legal services. It has successfully assisted clients in executing a host of landmark transactions and cases and secured fa - vourable outcomes in a wide array of groundbreak - ing, complex and precedent-setting disputes.
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Kate Yin is a recognised leader in compliance and government enforcement, boasting extensive experience in complex multi- jurisdictional and multi-agency cases, and successfully helping clients
related compliance playbooks and policies, incident response plans, advising internal clients on MLPS, data localisation and cross-border data transfer projects, and setting up cross-functional cybersecurity teams.
reduce or avoid penalties. Prior to joining Fangda Partners, she spent a decade in the US. founded Ropes & Gray’s Asia compliance team, and is a Chambers Asia-Pacific Leading Lawyer. She has advised numerous multinational and domestic enterprises in responding to law enforcement actions by US, Chinese, and other overseas governments, conducting internal investigations that resulted in clients being exempted from penalties and recovering substantial losses.
Yanjun Zhuang has extensive experience in criminal defence and government enforcement, as well as in anti-fraud internal investigations for
both multinational companies and domestic Chinese companies. Mr Zhuang has served clients in a broad range of industries, such as life sciences, TMT, manufacturing, real estate, automobile and finance. He excels in uncovering sophisticated fraud schemes and recovering millions of dollars for clients in criminal and civil matters and investigations. Before joining Fangda, Mr Zhuang worked for 15 years in the procuratorial department.
Sherman Deng practises in the field of data privacy and cybersecurity compliance, representing both domestic and multinational clients in
bank finance, tourism, internet, manufacture industries on data governance, incident response and cross-border data transfer matters. Before joining Fangda Partners, Mr Deng was a VP and senior counsel of Marriott International. In his seven years at the company, Mr Deng handled several high-profile data and cybersecurity incidents. He played a leadership role in implementing the company’s cybersecurity-
Patrick Guo has a practice at Fangda Partners, which focuses on privacy and data protection, cybersecurity, government enforcement and regulatory compliance. His clients operate in a wide range of industries
and sectors such as finance, consulting, education, manufacturing, hospitality, luxury, retail, automotive, TMT, gaming, logistics, pharmaceuticals, artificial
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