Kate Yin

Practice Areas

MS. YIN'S PRACTICE AREA IS GOVERNMENT ENFORCEMENT AND REGULATORY COMPLIANCE.

Ms. Yin is a recognized leader in complex government enforcement, internal investigation and regulatory compliance, especially challenging crossborder matters. Ms. Yin has been ranked as band 1 lawyer for “Corporate InvestigationAnticorruption” by Chambers Asia and “RegulatoryCompliance” and “Data Protection” by Legal 500, and “Regulatory and Compliance Lawyer of the Year” by China Law Practice.

Ms. Yin has represented clients in a wide arrange of areas, such as antibribery, antiunfair competition, data protection, accounting fraud, securities law, antimoney laundering, conflict of interest, trade secret and sanction and export control. With deep insights into government enforcements and market practices, Ms. Yin is highly sought after in most challenging government enforcements and corporate investigations, particularly those involving multijurisdictions. Ms. Yin has successfully defended clients in government enforcements and helped clients avoid hefty penalties and headline stories.

Ms. Yin participated in various high profile cases such as GSK Chinese commercial bribery prosecution and Siemens FCPA monitorship. Highly regarded as a leader in the compliance field, Ms. Yin has been engaged by the CLA under the Ministry of Justice as the expert on compliance to author the Annual Blue Book on Compliance in China for the last six years. Ms. Yin is also an expert of TC260 responsible for drafting implementation measures for the Cyber Security Law.

Anticorruption and multilateral bank sanctions are among Ms. Yins areas of expertise. Ms. Yin has extensive experience in providing comprehensive legal services relating to antibribery and multilateral bank sanctions for multinational and Chinese companies, including establishing tailormaid compliance programs, conducting complex internal investigations, evaluating compliance risks in cuttingedge business models, and responding to government enforcements and crisis management.

Data compliance is another practice area of Ms. Yins expertise. Ms. Yin helps clients establishing global data protection program, conducting data compliance due diligence, advising client on challenging crossborder data transfer involving state secrets, important data and personal information reviews in connection with government enforcements and litigation as well as daily operation.

Ms. Yin also has extensive experience in export control and sanctions. Ms. Yin has represented a number of stateowned and private companies listed on the Entity List by the BIS, establishing sanctions and export control compliance program, assist clients in a wide range of industries on export control and sanction risks under PRC laws.