Press Release

On April 22, 2024, Asian Legal Business ("ALB"), a world-leading legal directory owned by Thomson Reuters, unveiled its 2024 ALB China Top 15 Cybersecurity & Data Protection Lawyers. Han Kun partner David Tang was named to the list, owing to his exceptional performance in the field.

Mr. Tang's primary practice areas are general corporate and commercial, foreign direct investment, and cross-border mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Tang also focuses on corporate compliance and data protection. He regularly advises clients on their China operations in connection with compliance policies and guidelines, internal compliance reviews, audits, and government investigations involving commercial bribery and other regulatory compliance matters. He also conducts internal investigations for clients, including those concerning vendors and company employee conflicts of interest, self-dealing, PRC anti-bribery rules, the UK Bribery Act (2010) and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Mr. Tang regularly counsels clients on compliance matters relating to cybersecurity and data and personal information protection, assists clients in establishing data compliance systems, applying governmental procedure for cross-border data transfer, and investigating and managing data incident crises. The clients which Mr. Tang represents come from a wide variety of industry sectors such as advertisement, aircraft, automotive, clean energy, FMCG, food and beverage, hospitality, life sciences, logistics, petrochemical, power, retail, and TMT.

With the advancement of technologies like big data and AI, the digital economy has been on the fast track as a major economic pillar of China and even the world. An important factor of production with its potential and value proven in socio-economic development, data provides a key impetus to quality development. The laws and regulations in the field of cybersecurity and data protection are evolving with the times, while the market observes more excellent lawyers dedicated in this realm. Against this backdrop, ALB has launched a list of outstanding lawyers specializing in cybersecurity and data protection for the second year in a row. The lawyers on the list cover diverse industries including Internet, finance, energy, pharmaceuticals, logistics, etc.