King & Wood Mallesons
Client SatisfactionKing & Wood Mallesons centres its TMT practice around its expertise in data protection, cybersecurity, and regulatory issues. The team advises clients in the telecom sector on regulatory reform and compliance, network access agreements, and national broadband rollouts, and assists tech clients with data privacy issues and implementing IT systems. The firm recently set up a new AI team led by Seagull Song, which assists with AI security and compliance. Splitting her time between Beijing and Sanya, Susan Ning leads the TMT practice and is an expert in navigating Chinese regulations including big data legislation. Wei He and Han Wu co-lead the team from Beijing, with Wu focusing on advising multinational clients on data issues. Yuanyuan Cheng is well-versed in TMT regulatory compliance matters and is based in Beijing, while Yirui Zhang handles high-tech sector issues such as AI from Shanghai.
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Testimonials
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‘The firm has been super professional, and helpful with practical professional advice. Responsiveness has also been terrific, all provided in a timely manner. The legal knowledge and especially the high proficiency in the combination between legal knowledge and technology has been one of the highest I have came across from external counsel. ’
‘Yvonne Cheng has been an outstanding external counsel and has been an instrumental part of our team. Yvonne is super professional, has the highest knowledge of laws and technology, is diligent, and is super nice to work with. She has a can-do approach, and her understanding of our business has been super impressive. She is one of a kind.’
‘The team is highly efficient and has a good attitude. They are highly sensitive to technological developments and the latest legal dynamics, and have strong cross-team legal problem-solving capabilities.’
‘With a regulatory background, Leimin Yu is highly sensitive to the latest business and industry trends, has a deep understanding, and has flexible thinking.’
‘Our company cooperates with the King & Wood team mainly in the fields of technology transformation and corporate intellectual property. The team can provide enterprises with more comprehensive consulting service suggestions from multiple perspectives such as intellectual property, private equity financing, capital markets, tax planning, etc., and match corresponding professional teams in different fields. It has strong comprehensive solutions, response speed, case experience accumulation and other aspects.’
‘Yirui Zhang not only has very rich professional knowledge and experience in the field of IP, but also has extensive case experience in areas such as the capital markets. She has excellent business intuition, a relatively broad capital market interpersonal network, excellent internal and external communication skills, and an extremely dedicated work spirit, which enables her to stand out.’
Key clients
- Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
- Beijing Xiaomi Mobile Software Co., Ltd.
- Bain Capital, LP
- Qingdao Ainnovation Technology Group
- Oppo
- China Mobile Group Zhejiang Co., Ltd.
- PayPal Payments (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
- NetEase (Hangzhou) Network Co., Ltd
- Ant Group
- Beijing International Data Exchange
- Cimc Safeway Technologies Co., Ltd.
- Beijing International Big Data Exchange Co., Ltd.
- TravelSky Technology Limited
- Beijing Express Hand Technology Co., Ltd.
- Volvo Car Asia Pacific Investment Holding Co.
- Tubatu Group Co., Ltd.
- Yonyou (Hong Kong) Company Limited
- PayPal Payments (Beijing) Co. Ltd.
- Beijing Jinwei Zhiguang Information Technology Co., Ltd
- Amazon (China) Holding Company Limited
- Gen Digital Inc.
Work highlights
- Advised Bain Capital's on the compliance of Chindata Group's business operations in China and matters related to the financing of both Chindata Group's data center projects and the deal.
- Advised Beijing International Big Data Exchange on data trading, data property registration, and other market activities involving data elements.
- Assisted Amazon with cross-border data transfer compliance.
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Practice head
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Susan Ning, Wei He, Han Wu