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Kevin Wang is a partner of Global Law Office, Shanghai. He has a PhD in Criminal Justice and specialises in AML and economic sanctions, white-collar crime defence, corporate governance and securities litigation. Kevin served as a compliance and risk manager for a Chinese securities firm and then as a senior financial crime compliance officer for a top Wall Street investment firm before joining Global Law Office. Possessing deep knowledge of the China local market, and with industry experience in the financial sector, his expertise in corporate liabilities defence, compliance tutoring, and response to regulatory inquiries and inspections helps multinational companies in handling complex investigation and litigation matters.

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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.

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With more than 20 years of experience as a lawyer in both Germany and China and as an internationally recognised expert in the fields of compliance and corporate/M&A, Mike heads the Shanghai office and primarily advises medium-sized companies and globally-operating groups in their activities in the People’s Republic of China.
He focuses his practice on advising subsidiaries or joint ventures on all phases of the development and localisation of compliance-management systems both in a preventive and investigative manner in the context of internal investigations, mainly concerning business activities between Germany/Europe and China.
Mike combines legal expertise with extensive knowledge of the country with a broad intercultural understanding, which is essential in dealing with sensitive issues relating to compliance such as anti-corruption, conflicts of interest, fraud, or breach of trust.

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Michael has more than 20 years of experience in advising international companies on their operations in and with China. He has profound experience advising industrial clients in various sectors, covering all legal aspects of a typical investment deal like market entry and joint ventures, M&A restructuring and exit. Throughout his two decades’ practice, Michael has been gradually converging his energy on technology driven business and has built up his reputation and connections in the circle.
As the first Chinese partner of Taylor Wessing, Michael is now heading the firm's TMC practice for China. Besides his expertise regarding general corporate and commercial matters, he specializes in IT regulatory and data/privacy protection areas. Michael holds CIPP/E certification as granted by the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). At the same time, he frequently publishes articles and comments on IT and technology related legal topics.
Michael is National Vice Chair of the Legal & Competition Working Group under the European Chamber of Commerce. He also serves as an arbitrator of the Shanghai International Arbitration Center.
Michael studied law at the University of International Business and Economics in Beijing (UIBE), China, where he also completed his LLB and LLM degrees in 1997 and 2000 respectively. In 2006, Michael received his law doctorate from UIBE. In 1997, Michael was admitted to the Chinese bar. After practicing in domestic law firms, he worked in the Beijing office of a major international law firm from 2000 to 2002. In 2002, he joined Taylor Wessing in the Shanghai office. As of 2007, he has been appointed as a partner of Taylor Wessing.

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Hansje van den Noort is a legal professional with over 20 years experience in roles across corporate legal departments, law firms and the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets.
Currently she is serving as Senior Legal Director at Philips China and is admitted to the Dutch bar. Since the beginning of 2022 she is based in Shanghai. Prior to this she held the position of Group Legal Counsel for Anti-Bribery and Anti-Corruption at Philips in Amsterdam.
She worked for 17 years in several law firms, specializing in investigations, public enforcement, and white-collar defense. Additionally she gained regulatory insights as Senior Supervisor at the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets.
She holds qualifications and specialisations in financial and criminal law and a MSc in Criminal Justice Policy from the London School of Economics. She studied civil and criminal law at the University of Amsterdam.

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FENG Xiaoju, VP Legal & Compliance Officer of Saint-Gobain APAC Region, is now looking after 14 jurisdictions across the region. He ever worked in King & Wood Mallesons Shanghai office for corporate matters, and then for Deloitte as China Legal Counsel covering all service lines. After that, he moved to AREVA T&D as China Legal Director in power and energy sector and joined Saint-Gobain since 2010. Prior to the above, he had worked as Branch GM in a State-owned Enterprise engaged in international EPC projects in sectors of power and petrochemicals in many countries for 10 years.

The honors FENG Xiaoju earned in recent years, to name a few, including Thomson Reuters ALB “General Counsel Profiles” (总法名人榜) 2021, Thomson Reuters ALB “China Top 15 GC” (2020), Legal 500 “GC Power List China” (2019), Legal 500 “GC Power List China” (2018); he also led the team shortlisted twice of ALB China “MNC In-house Team of the Year – Finalist”.

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Felix, a German lawyer by training, studied in Berlin, Sydney and Beijing. He started his career in China where he worked in private practice for 8 years. In 2011 he relocated to Germany and joined the Legal and Compliance Department of Siemens. After several years in Siemens Headquarter Felix took over the role as General Counsel and Compliance Officer for Siemens in Qatar and Kuwait. He is now based in Shanghai leading Siemens Compliance team in China.
Siemens is a technology company focused on industry and infrastructure. From more resource-efficient factories and resilient supply chains to smarter buildings and grids, Siemens creates technology with purpose for its customers by combining the real and the digital worlds.

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Mr. Le Yi currently serves as the Head of Legal & Compliance for ASML China. He and his team provide relevant support for the business of ASML and its subsidiaries in China.
Before joining ASML to enter the semiconductor industry, Mr. Le Yi served as a Senior Legal Counsel for Honeywell APAC, responsible for the legal matters of its Building Technology Group and Safety and Productivity Solutions Group in the Asia-Pacific region.
Mr. Le Yi is admitted to practice law in New York State of the United States and has passed Chinese bar. He practiced law at O’Melveny & Myers and Baker & McKenzie, and has extensive experience in the fields of cross-border merger and acquisition, capital market and foreign direct investment. Since 2024, Mr. Le Yi has been appointed as an arbitrator of Shanghai International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (Shanghai International Arbitration Center).
Mr. Le Yi received his legal education in both China and the United States. He obtained his LL.B. and LL.M. degrees from East China Normal University, and another LL.M. degree from the University of Chicago School of Law.

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ROBIN SMITH is Vice President and General Counsel, for China & APAC, at LEGO Toy (Shanghai) Co. Ltd., which is the Chinese subsidiary of the Danish LEGO toy company.
Robin currently leads a team of lawyers in Shanghai and Jiaxing (China), Vietnam and Singapore, who handle all of the legal work for the company, across all of Asia, including India and AUS/NZ. However, her broad legal knowledge and IP enforcement experience spans across many jurisdictions and over three decades.
Formerly, Robin was the VP and GC of the American division of the LEGO Toy Company, handling major cases and legal issues across the U.S., Canada, Mexico and South America.
Prior to the LEGO Group, Robin worked at the Connecticut, U.S. law firm of Day, Berry & Howard LLP (now known as Day, Pitney LLP), where she handled trial and appellate level matters in general commercial litigation and intellectual property law.
Her Juris Doctorate degree is from the Syracuse University College of Law (New York) and her Bachelor of Arts degree from Wesleyan University (Connecticut). In addition to state and district courts, she is also admitted to the bar of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Robin has been a Board member of, among others, the International Trademark Association (INTA), and the U.S. National Association of Women Lawyers.
Robin relocated with her husband to Shanghai in July 2018, and really loves living in and traveling around China. She also has a twenty-six year-old son, who just obtained his Master’s degree in the U.S., and who is still, to this day, a huge fan of LEGO® toys!