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Cross-border M&A
Carve-out divestments, cross-border acquisitions and integration, business-model separation, JV establishment and dissolution, ODI greenfield.
Counsel · APAC Legal & Compliance
Lesley (Lei) Wang
王磊 · APAC Senior Legal Counsel
Senior regional counsel across automotive OEM and global med-tech — corporate governance, contract programs, privacy and trade controls.
PRC Lawyer’s License · Legal Professional Qualification (Category A) · MOJ National “1,000 Foreign-related Lawyers” Talent Pool · EXIN Data Protection Officer · Temple University LL.M.
20 yrsof legal experience
10 yrs+cross-border practice
300+litigation & arbitration cases
6 mktsAPAC jurisdictions covered
I · PROFILE
Profile
Nearly 20 years of legal experience, 10+ of them cross-border: senior regional counsel at a Danish-listed global med-tech group reporting to the APAC GC with a dotted line to the Group DPO; in-house counsel at one of China’s largest state-owned automotive OEMs; top-firm M&A and data practice; and 11 years of private-practice litigation across 300+ cases.
Fluent in the governance logic of state-led enterprises — collective decision-making, joint-venture governance, and the working boundaries between legal, audit and business — while equally at home in a European-headquartered, English-language compliance environment.
A translator between state-owned-capital compliance requirements and international best practice.
Standalone-company legal toolkit: standard-contract libraries, delegation-of-authority matrices, contract-performance inspection programmes, and 0→1 compliance systems built at both FAW and Coloplast — suited to standing up a lean, first-time regional legal and compliance function end to end.
- Governance
- SOE decision-making rituals, JV governance, legal–audit–business boundaries
- Matrix
- Routine English reporting to European HQ; direct work with JP/KR/SG/US GMs
- Bilingual
- Drafting, negotiating and reviewing CN–EN agreements and memos
- Build 0→1
- Legal, compliance, IP and data-privacy functions from scratch
- Panels
- Selection, direction and budget control of external counsel and vendors
- Regulators
- CAC, NMPA, MIIT; embassies, chambers of commerce and industry bodies
II · PRACTICE
Practice Areas
Eight areas covering the full enterprise legal function — from transactions to compliance, contracts to disputes.
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Data & Cross-border Privacy
PIPL · APPI · PIPA · GDPR; CAC cross-border data security assessment; Privacy-by-Design across the project lifecycle.
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AI & Digital Health
AI voice-bot and patient-facing platforms; consent architecture, data mapping, AI governance and ethics review.
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Trade Controls
Export controls, sanctions, competition and anti-unfair-competition clauses embedded in procurement and sales contracts.
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IP & Trade Secrets
Licensing and brand-protection terms, trade-secret architectures, licensed-partner structures for regulated data.
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Dispute Resolution
Litigation and arbitration strategy across borders; direction of local counsel; Seoul Western District Court win.
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Governance & Compliance
DoA matrices, rulebook legality review, ABC/ABAC investigation support, compliance risk early-warning mechanisms.
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Contract Programmes
Template libraries and review checkpoints, performance-inspection closed loops, bilingual negotiation, seal and authorization control.
III · SELECTED MATTERS
Representative Matters
Matters as publicly describable; details generalized consistent with confidentiality obligations.
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First-in-industry CAC cross-border data assessment
Designed and executed the Beijing entity’s CAC cross-border data security assessment — the first medical-device MNC in China to pass across all scenarios; selected as a recommended typical case by the Central Cyberspace Administration. Built 0→1 personal-data compliance systems for two entities.
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China market-entry for an innovative device
With no local registration and the standard import route blocked, researched NMPA rules and Hainan Bo’ao Lecheng policy, proved the clinical-urgency import pathway and designed the compliant scheme; acted as the cross-border hub between US teams and Chinese authorities — approval secured.
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Carve-out divestment of a core portfolio
APAC legal support for separating and handing over a divested business: review and transition of customer, distributor and supply agreements; service continuity under the TSA framework; cross-functional coordination on entity filings and transfer of rights (announced and closed Dec 2024).
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Cross-border acquisition & Australian clinical integration
Regional integration workstream for a Swedish ENT-implant acquisition; led Day-2 clinical integration in Australia under TGA regulations, NHMRC ethics guidance and GCP — NDA, clinical trial agreement, CRO engagement and DPA drafted and negotiated.
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Japan AI voice-bot compliance
APPI data mapping, opt-in consent, cross-border transfer and AI governance for an AI voice-bot call centre; the live system replaced 60% of manual agent capacity with a compliant-by-design architecture.
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Seoul Western District Court victory
Lead counsel on a Korea distributor dispute for a Swiss wound-care business line — strategy and coordination of the Korean counsel team; victory protecting overseas commercial rights.
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Korea distribution-network contract suite
End-to-end renegotiation ahead of channel transformation: dual-obligor joint-and-several liability, breach architecture paired with termination rights, DQA decoupling, IP licensing and anti-diversion riders — legacy base closed out before restructuring.
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Autonomous trucking cooperation & US SPAC listing
China-law data-compliance lead on an OEM autonomous-truck cooperation — licensed map-surveyor partnership resolving surveying risk; revised China provisions in Series B/C documents, assisted SEC inquiry responses and SPAC risk disclosure.
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Premium-brand cooperation & group disputes
Legal support for a Hongqi × Bentley premium seat-supplier programme and other strategic cooperations; represented the group in 20+ litigation and arbitration cases with favorable outcomes across the portfolio.
IV · EXPERIENCE
Professional Experience
09.2022 – Present
Senior Legal Counsel APAC / APAC Data Privacy Counsel
Coloplast A/S — Danish-listed global medical-device group
Full APAC legal support and regional contract ownership; privacy-framework upgrades across Japan, Korea and Singapore; data-incident response and Privacy-by-Design gates; ABC/ABAC investigation support; legal-training programmes; panel and budget control of external counsel.
Reports to APAC GC (line) and Group DPO, Denmark (dotted) ｜ Team: 3 lawyers + 1 secretary ｜ Scope: Greater China, Japan, Korea, Singapore, ANZ
03.2021 – 08.2022
Senior Lawyer / Second-level Partner
AllBright Law Offices (Beijing)
Data compliance, capital markets and dispute resolution for automotive OEMs, suppliers and technology companies; bilingual negotiation of cooperation, technology-development, NDA and IP-licensing agreements; regulator communications with CAC, MIIT and telecom authorities.
06.2017 – 11.2020
In-house Counsel, Audit & Legal Department
FAW Group / FAW Co., Ltd. — R&D Center
Full R&D–production–sales legal BP support: contract library and review checkpoints, performance-inspection closed loop, compliance early-warning mechanism, executive authorization documents and seal control; 20+ disputes represented with favorable outcomes.
03.2015 – 06.2017
Senior Attorney
Jilin Jingcheng Law Firm
Led a 2–3 lawyer team: Malaysia ODI greenfield M&A, corporate-governance restructuring, Sino-US JV dissolution and liquidation, NEEQ listing; loan, NPL and restructuring litigation for financial institutions.
07.2006 – 03.2015
Intern → Senior Attorney
Jilin Liangzhi Law Firm
Led a 5–7 lawyer team: 300+ civil, commercial, labor and criminal litigation and arbitration cases; capital increases and equity acquisitions; ongoing counsel to enterprises and government agencies; pro-bono service.
V · EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
Education & Credentials
Education
- Temple University, USA · LL.M. (American Law)2019.08 – 2020.11 · Tsinghua–Temple joint program · MOE overseas-degree certification
- Madrid Bar Association, Spain · EU Investment & M&A Training2014 · China MOJ-sponsored
- Jilin University · Bachelor of Management2002 – 2006 · Project 985
Admissions
- PRC Lawyer’s License
- Chinese Legal Professional Qualification (Category A)
- EXIN Data Protection Officer (EU)
- English · daily working languageExecutive reporting · negotiation · Westlaw / LexisNexis / HeinOnline
Honors & Memberships
- MOJ National “1,000 Foreign-related Lawyers” Talent Pool2018
- All China Lawyers Association — Foreign-related Leading Talent · Leading Young Lawyer2014 · 2016
- Jilin Lawyers Association — Belt & Road Committee, Member2014 – 2021
VI · CONTACT
Contact
Cross-border transactions, data privacy and AI compliance, or standing up a regional legal function — welcome to write.
wangleiwork@hotmail.comBased in Beijing · Open to Shanghai & relocation