Allen’s practice areas are regulatory and compliance, dispute resolution, criminal and compliance, involving professional directions such as compliance system construction, cybersecurity and data protection, company investigation/white-collar crime, anti-unfair competition, etc. The clients served by Allen are mainly engaged in the industries such as Internet media, manufacturing, distribution and retail, pharmaceutical and health, foreign trade, investment and finance, etc.

Compliance area: Allen has advised the clients on compliance system constructing, governance designing, legal audit (e.g. compliance due diligence), employee training, company investigation (e.g. investigation involving embezzlement, conflict interest, business secret infringement), and daily compliance consultation.

Regulatory area: Allen has advised the clients on the response to administrative investigations, consumer complaints, and other crisis events, such as extortioner reports and slanders and hypes spread by the third parties. The crisis events involve various fields, including production safety, label compliance, quality issue, financial compliance, consumer personal information protection, and cybersecurity events.

Dispute resolution area: Allen has advised the clients on the negotiations with various well-known manufacturers, distributors, service providers, and other trading entities on contract drafting, reviewing, implementation, dispute resolution, and practical orientation reconciliation proposals. Allen also has represented the clients to respond to lots of civil litigation, arbitration and criminal cases, the causes of action and/or charges involved includes investment disputes, contract disputes, crimes of infringing citizens' personal information, crimes of illegal business operation, crimes of illegally hacking into computer systems, etc.

Before joining SGLA, Allen worked for a number of leading domestic law firms and served as the resident lawyer for a leading multinational listed food and beverage company, responsible for the legal affairs of its medical nutrition business.

Allen has obtained lawyer’s license. Allen’s working language is Chinese and English.

University of Edinburgh,International Banking Law and Finance,LLM

East China University of Political Science and Law,Law(civil and commercial law direction),LLB

Shanghai Advertising Association, Advertising Examiner (Hu Advertising Examiner 20190232);

GIC China Cybersecurity Compliance Summit Forum, Speaker for the topic on “how to deal with hacker attacks, viruses and leaks”;

ACCP compliance seminar, Speaker for the topic on “application of big data in corporate daily compliance”;

EverPro internal training, Speaker for the topic on “Internet advertising compliance”;

ACI malfeasance investigation seminar, Speaker for the topic on “internal investigation of malfeasance employees and strengthening the effectiveness of corresponding evidence”;

The 9th MOOT Shanghai, Arbitrator.

2021-Now, SGLA Law Firm, Partner

2017-2021, Zhong Lun Law Firm, Associate

2016-2017, King & Wood Mallesons, Associate

Compliance System Construction and Policy Design

Advised an energy group company on legal department constructing, compliance policies drafting, and governance structure and its corresponding systems designing;

Advised a financial investment state-owned enterprise on conducting compliance audit and risk investigation regarding all investment projects during certain three years;

Advised a semiconductor company on compliance system building and corresponding compliance documents (such as specific policies and guidelines) drafting;

Advised a real estate company on drafting the supplier anti-corruption policy, employee conflict of interest policy and corresponding reporting and internal investigation guidelines;

Advised a financial management subsidiary of a domestic commercial bank on anti-money laundering system construction. This compliance program is an exploration and innovation in the compliance field of financial management subsidiary of the domestic commercial bank;

Advised a production-oriented state-owned enterprise on compliance management system reconstruction. This compliance program is a pilot demonstration program for the first batch of provincial-level state-owned enterprise compliance management system in China.

Advised all kinds of companies on compliance system construction and compliance documents drafting, including the code of conduct, compliance management guidelines, specific compliance manual (such as sponsorship policy, guideline on interacting with public officers, instruction on the compliance due diligence to the third party, etc.).

Government Investigation

Advised a famous European company on response to a series of comprehensive government inspections on product quality, label compliance, price fraud, consumer protection, fire compliance, etc., which jointly initiated by the administration for market regulation, national development and reform commission, and fire protection departments in multiple regions;

Advised an automobile company on response to a series of cross-border cybersecurity and data protection investigations on hacker attack event;

Advised a food company on response to a label compliance investigation initiated by Administration for Market Regulation, which caused by a malicious extortioner report;

Advised a French company on drafting its emergency plan and guideline to respond to the “dawn raid” conducted by the government;

Advised a medical device companies on response to a cybersecurity event caused by hacker attacks, and assist it to successfully perform its relevant obligations under Chinese law;

Advised all kinds of company on response to administrative investigations, extortioner reports, and other emergency crises.

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Advised a commercial real estate group company on user agreements drafting, privacy policies drafting, and consumer complaint response system constructing;

Advised a well-known e-commerce company on constructing a consumer data flow (data exit) system in the Asia-Pacific region;

Advised a U.S. company on cybersecurity testing and investigation to evaluate a cross-border acquisition project with a state-owned company in China;

Advised a U.S. medical device company on the response to the event of its Chinese employees' information leak, which was caused by hacker attacks;

Advised an investment group company on self-evaluating on data exit compliance before it providing data (the evidence of its cross-border litigation) to U.S. organization and/or person;

Advised all kinds of companies on the issues relating to cybersecurity and data protection, and provided corresponding practical solutions.

Internal Investigation

Advised a hardware manufacturer on an investigation regarding employee embezzlement and corresponding dismissal issues, and successfully assisted the company initiated the criminal proceeding;

Advised an equipment manufacturer on an instigation regarding the employees who infringe company’s business secret and intellectual property and corresponding dismissal issues;

Advised FMCG company on an investigation regarding employee bribery and corresponding dismissal issues, and successfully assisted the company initiated the criminal proceeding;

Advised a cosmetics company on an internal investigation regarding a product quality incident, and successfully assisted the company to hold corresponding employees accountable;

Advised all kinds of companies on the internal anti-fraud and anti-bribery investigation, and assisted the companies to conduct other investigation projects.

Dispute Resolution

Advised a game company on a contract dispute with its game agent, and successfully assisted the game company terminated the contract with small cost and then entered into a new contract with a better agent;

Advised a cultural & media company on a contract dispute caused by COVID-19, and successfully assisted the company minimized the economic losses under unfavorable circumstances.

Advised a PBS company on a case in which it was suspected of infringing personal information of citizens and assisted it convinced the prosecutor that the case is not a unit crime.

Advised a foreign investment platform on a case in which its representative office in China was suspected of illegal operation and assisted it convinced the prosecutor that the case is not a unit crime.

Advised a European spare parts manufacturer on a case that it encountered illegal intrusion into the computer system in China and assisted it timely and effectively prevented the loss from being further expanded, and make time for the public security organs to investigate the case and catch up corresponding suspects.

Advised a German manufacturer on a civil case regarding the cross-border guarantee, and assisted it successfully persuaded the second instance court to support its claim and rescind the judgment of the first instance.

Advised all kinds of companies on dispute cases, and provide efficient and feasible dispute resolution solutions for the clients.

Practice of cybersecurity and data compliance audit;

Corporate compliance of protecting customer personal information;

Corporate compliance of building cybersecurity grade protection system;

Data exit: What should companies do (2017 Edition);

Corporate compliance of personal information exit management (2019 Edition);

Cybersecurity grade protection system 2.0 (first volume): review and prospect;

Cybersecurity grade protection system 2.0 (next volume): interpretation of specific standards;

Building corporate data compliance system under flexible working system;

GDPR: what you should know;

Corporate compliance of conducting FSMP advertisement;

Pharmaceutical corporate compliance of sponsoring academic conference;

Corporate compliance of protecting business secrets based on the interpretation of economic and trade agreement between the government of PRC and the government of the USA.