Amy is a partner in the corporate group of Reed Smith and is based in Shanghai. Amy has extensive experience in representing clients in foreign direct investments, mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, FCPA and compliance matters, employment and other general corporate matters. Amy also has experience in offshore listing and capital markets work. The clients Amy has served include multi-nationals in the pharmaceutical, chemical, automobile, furniture, green technology, human resource, financial and securities services industries.
Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice
Amy regularly advises various multinational companies in the banking, life sciences, FMCG, manufacturing industries on various data privacy and cybersecurity issues under PRC laws and assists with the review and development of the compliance program to enable the operationalisation of practices and procedures to comply with data protection law on a day-to-day basis. This includes reviewing business contract templates from the privacy and data protection perspective, preparing questionnaires and establishing self-auditing structures/processes relating to existing practices, drafting inter-/intra-organization policies and codes of conduct, and developing and implementing standard operating procedures.
In addition to the regulatory and compliance matters, Amy acts as the long-term external counsel in transactions and corporate matters for technology companies in relation to their onshore acquisitions of domestic companies. Amy’s advice would cover due diligence, documentation and closing matters as well as daily queries in all aspects of anti-/unfair competition, contract review, etc.
Cross-border Transactions and International Projects
Amy also acts as the main point of contact for a leading Chinese conglomerate on a series of overseas acquisitions and joint ventures in the US, UK, France, Swiss and Australia, and coordinates with the offshore local counsels in various jurisdictions to provide the following legal services:
- During the transaction period, assists with the letters of intent and non-disclosure agreement, conducts the legal due diligence, drafts and negotiates deal documents, assists with the signing and closing of deals, and helps the client to obtain necessary regulatory approvals and anti-trust filings;
- After the completion, continues to assist the client in handling the post-closing legal issues in respect of IP licenses, executive incentive plan, tax restructuring, etc., and represents the Chinese investors in handling the class actions and government investigations.
Amy joined Reed Smith in 2011 and has served as office managing partner for the firm’s Shanghai office.
