In her more than 20 years of practice, Lindsay Zhu has developed a broad cross-border practice for both foreign companies operating in China and for Chinese companies operating oversea, including international trade and sanctions, data privacy, regulatory and compliance, cross-border M&A, joint ventures and commercial transactions.
Lindsay is one of a few lawyers in China who has expertise on international trade matters and policies, especially US export control, sanctions and foreign investment reviews. Collaborating with our strong trade, national security review and policy team in Washington DC, she helps both multinational companies and Chinese companies in all aspect of export controls, sanctions and other trade compliance and policy matters, including prevention and removal from the Unverified List (UVL), the Entity List, the MEU List, SDN and other US blacklists, making voluntary self-disclosure and submissions to the US Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Customs and Border Protetion (CBP), responding to governmental or congressional investigations in connection with export control, forced labor, ICTS supply chain and other US policy issues, as well as monitoring upcoming law and policies.
A significant part of her practice has been focusing on foreign direct investment, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures and commercial transactions. She also advises clients in different industries on a wide range of regulatory issues in China.
Lindsay has substantial experience in corporate compliance and related investigations, in particular in the areas of anti-bribery and business ethics for companies in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). Her work covers drafting and advising on the implementation of compliance policies, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and ethics training, conducting internal audit/health checks for clients, investigations into suspicious employee activities and cooperating with local counsel to take civil or criminal actions.
Lindsay is also experienced in data privacy and protection matters, where she is an active member of our data privacy team and counsels numerous clients on China’s cybersecurity law, personal information protection law and other data protection-related issues in both a local and a global context, such as conducting data protection gap assessments and data protection impact assessments; evaluating whether data is subject to heightened security and data localization requirements (including distinct applicability to consumer, employee and B2B data); drafting and improving data governance and compliance programs; drafting and negotiating data protection contracts; advising on mobile application requirements; providing data protection training; and advising on cross-border data transfers.
Lindsay has been shortlisted by Asian Legal Awards in 2021 and 2022 as a Trade Lawyer of the Year in the Asian region, and she has been highly recommended by clients and specifically cited by Legal 500 Asia Pacific.
International Trade and Policy
Corporate and M&A
Compliance and Investigations
Data Privacy and Cybersecurity