Fangda Partners

Data Protection

Mr. Sherman Deng’s practice focuses on data privacy and cybersecurity compliance. Sherman is currently 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 the firm, Sherman was a VP & Senior Counsel of Marriott International. In his seven years at the company,  Sherman handled several high-profile data and cybersecurity incidents.  He played a leadership role in preparing and implementing the company’s cybersecurity-related compliance playbooks and policies, incident response plans, advising internal clients on MLPS, data localization and cross-border data transfer projects, setting up cross-functional cybersecurity teams, building privacy and cybersecurity baselines, and managing other aspects of privacy lifecycle in China.  He also managed legal matters of Marriott’s digital partners, loyalty program and digital channels for China.  He handled legal matters related to third party risk management, digital marketing, cloud computing, app security design life cycle (SDLC), e-commerce, data security and data analytics.

Before moving in-house at Marriott, Sherman had worked nearly ten years as an associate at White & Case LLP at its Shanghai and New York offices, with exposure to banking, pharmaceutical, biotech and e-commerce platform businesses.

Chinese, English

Sherman is a director of Shanghai Information Network Security Administration Association.

UC Berkeley School of Law, LL.M. 2010 Fudan University School of Law, LL.B. 2006