Annie Xue

Practice Areas

Cybersecurity and Data Protection

Antitrust and Anti-unfair Competition

Anti-commercial Bribery

Multilateral Development Bank Compliance

Publications

· China: MLPS 2.0 - An introduction to the 2019 Implementation Guide

· A Brief Analysis of Key Revisions of the PRC Cybersecurity Law

· Cross-border Data Transfer: The Security Assessment Path

· Cross-border PI Transfer: The Standard Contract Path

· COULD (CHINA-BASED) ARBITRATION SAVE THE FRAND RATE SETTING GAME

· What Was China’s National Anti Monopoly Administration Created For

Personal

Dr. Xue specializes in antitrust and anti-unfair competition, cybersecurity and data protection, anti-commercial bribery, and Chinese social credit system. Dr. Xue has extensive experience in the said areas and profound understanding of the complicated issues standing at the intersection of those topics.

Dr. Xue has led plenty of projects i.e, antitrust administrative investigations, merger control filings, antitrust compliance consultancies, and handled various antitrust disputes. With profound insights into industrial trend and regulatory policies, she has gained diverse experience in dealing with SEP-related affairs since 2013. Dr. Xue is also particularly adept at providing clients with effective solutions in both contentious and non-contentious matters regarding cross-cutting areas such as big data discriminatory pricing, data scraping, data monopoly, assetization of data into balance sheets, and cross-border transmission of data, international compliance investigations, etc.

Dr. Xue studied competition law at the College of Law of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and obtained J.S.D. degree. She also participated in many research topics led by law enforcement authorities and academia as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute of Law of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and actively contributed to the formulation of competition and data regulatory policies. She authored many articles and reviews related to legal compliance and served as an editor of The China Competition Bulletin hosted by Australia and New Zealand Government College.

Languages Spoken

Mandarin Chinese

English

Education

Work Highlights

-- Cybersecurity and Data Protection

- Provided data compliance services for a biological AI diagnosis and treatment company

- Provided comprehensive data compliance services for an Internet hospital

- Provided personal information protection compliance training for a well-known Chinese insurance company

- Provided network security and data protection compliance services for a well-known state-owned key industrial raw material warehousing and logistics group

- Advised a leading European automotive company on its GDPR compliance program in China for its Asia Pacific headquarters

- Advised a leading U.S. media company on compliance with China's cybersecurity law, the U.S. CCPA and the EU GDPR

-- Antitrust

- Assisted a well-known Japanese special equipment manufacturer to improve the anti-monopoly compliance framework for the sales system

- Provided risk assessment for anti-monopoly issues in the patent licensing process of an internationally renowned special printing equipment manufacturer

- Represented a world-renowned pharmaceutical manufacturer in an administrative investigation into a vertical monopoly agreement

- Represented a well-known telecommunications equipment manufacturer in an antitrust administrative investigation

- Represented a global financial service provider in an antitrust filing of a concentration of undertakings

- Represented a Canadian real estate giant in two antitrust filings of concentration of undertakings

- Represented a leading global patent operating company in a royalty dispute and antitrust dispute

-- Anti-commercial bribery

- Provided an anti-commercial bribery compliance audit based on the US FCPA and Chinese laws for a well-known US listed company against agents

- Advised a leading U.S. educational institution on Chinese law-based anti-bribery compliance

- Assessed and reported on commercial bribery compliance risks in government dealings for a leading Japanese household goods manufacturer

- Advising a leading Japanese printer manufacturer on commercial bribery in its rebate and discount policies

- Advised a Chinese state-owned airline on commercial bribery issues related to agency fees

-- World Bank Compliance Program

- Provided World Bank compliance audit services for a state-owned engineering design enterprise

- Provided compliance monitoring services to a major state-owned nuclear power engineering and construction company to assist it in lifting the World Bank's ban on entry sanctions

- Provided compliance monitoring services for three infrastructure construction subsidiaries of a state-owned conglomerate to assist them in lifting their World Bank debarment

- Compliance monitor for a large local state-owned enterprise to assist in the lifting of its World Bank embargo

- Provided compliance monitoring services to a large state-owned foreign water conservancy contracting company and assisted in lifting its World Bank sanctions

-- Other Matters

- Advised a multinational manufacturer of leather intermediate goods on China's social credit system

- Advised a Chinese subsidiary of a multinational company on its legal liability for false VAT invoicing and assisted the client in reporting the case to the police

- Advised the Xiamen Free Trade Zone Administrative Committee on the liability system for architects

- Pre-joint venture equity disposal due diligence for a well-known Korean energy company

- Advised a world-renowned dairy company on food safety regulation