Deacons

Deacons houses a broad team which is known for providing comprehensive advice across the PRC and Hong Kong, frequently acting for clients across the hospitality, gaming, and IT sectors. The group handles a variety of matters, including negotiations with service providers, data flow regulations across various jurisdictions, and data requests from law enforcement agencies and data subjects. Charmaine Koo and Machiuanna Chu jointly lead the practice. Koo is noted for her contentious IP expertise, regularly handling compliance issues concerning the exploitation, transfer, and processing of data, in addition to impact assessments on projects. Chu leverages her longstanding commercial expertise to act for technology clients in the commercialisation of digital businesses. Dual qualified in Hong Kong and New Zealand, Kelley Loo handles a broad range of IP related mandates, in addition to privacy policies, and arrangements governing the sharing of data across groups of companies and jurisdictions.