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Mr Zhang specialises in privacy and data protection, cyber security and regulatory compliance. Mr. Zhang practiced in private practice and in-house as senior counsel for many years. He has extensive experience in corporate and compliance work.
Mr Zhang has advised many clients on global GDPR compliance projects. He has extensive experience in setting up data protection compliance programs in China and localizing GDPR-centric data protection programs and FTC privacy management programs in China. He has also worked on and managed the global Binding Corporate Rules project. He has extensive experience in managing global compliance projects, law enforcement actions, and setting up data protection governance structures as well as various processes to comply with EU GDPR, US laws and personal data protection laws of non-European countries, including China and APAC countries.
Mr Zhang also advises clients on various law enforcement and contentious matters, such as criminal investigations into alleged infringement of data protection rights, mandatory privacy audits, misappropriation of confidential information by employees, and data breach response and reporting in various jurisdictions. He also advises various clients on data protection issues in relation to emerging technology such as artificial intelligence, internet of things, big data, and driverless cars.
Mr Zhang has worked on various personal data protection related matters. These matters include conducting due diligence on target company compliance with Chinese data protection laws in M&A and investment transactions, data mapping, designing personal data collection and consent mechanisms, conducting supplier data protection due diligence, advising on cross-border data transfers and security assessments, drafting privacy policies and app user agreements, advising on data protection impact assessments (DPIA), drafting internal employee-facing privacy compliance requirements, handling data subject requests (DSR) and designing automated DSR processes, and reporting data breaches.

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Kristin Fang joined Siemens China in May, 2020 as the Data Privacy Officer. She is mainly responsible for compliance works in terms of data privacy, cybersecurity and cross-border data transmission. Kristin Fang is the licensed attorney in New York State, USA, and is also a Certified Information Privacy Profession (Europe, CIPP/E) as well as fellow of International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). Kristin’s area of profession is focused on China personal information protection and GDPR.

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With over 19-years experiences in multinational corporation’s legal affairs management and compliance, Victor used to work in a Hong Kong red-chip mobile communication company, a multi-national cosmetics company, and a world-class retail conglomerate. His extensive experience has equipped him with rich business knowledge of various industries, a sharp sense of different industry sectors and legal practice experiences. Victor has worked at Henkel for over 13 years, during which he has led his team handled numerous and complicated legal affairs and projects in the areas of international & domestic restructuring, divesture, mergers & acquisitions, labor, anti-trust, tax, customs, dispute resolution, government affairs, compliance and corporate governance. Victor’s performances has won him a high recognition from the Headquarters’ management, and he was elected as one of the Top General Counsel in 2015 by Asia Legal Business of Thomson Reuters and ranked one of GC Influencer of Greater China by Chambers in 2018 and 2019 consecutively as well as GC Power-list by Legal500 for consecutive years. Victor’s current practices and study interests concentrate on the legal systems of foreign direct investment, anti-trust, mergers & acquisitions, tax law, compliance and corporate law. Victor is also an active columnist at LexisNexis China and is invited from time to time by professional forums as the guest speaker on the above-mentioned areas.