Kevin Wang

Practice Areas

Capital Market

Private Equity & Investment Funds

Corporate / Merger & Acquisition

Compliance & Risk Control

Dispute Resolution

Career

Dr. Kevin Wang specializes in compliance and risk control, capital markets, PE/VC, M&A, and dispute resolution. Kevin leads financial regulation and compliance service and advises clients on market access to China capital market, securities regulation, PE investment, Fintech, non-banking payment regulation, and compliance matters. He helps clients design and improve their compliance programs and assists clients to prepare for government investigations, regulatory inquiries, and inspections, including those cases that could lead to transnational disputes in relation to sanctions, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering, and data law issues.

Kevin was admitted in the PRC in 1999. He joined Global Law Office as a partner in 2022. Prior to it, he worked for Goldman Sachs as an Executive Director in its Global Compliance Division for more than eight years, leading its China Financial Crime Compliance team to cover investment banking, securities trading, asset management, commodities, PE investment, alternative investment, and other business lines.

Kevin advised the firm on how to navigate the complex regulatory systems within the evolving geo-political context and how to make a balance among different regulatory expectations across multiple jurisdictions. Kevin also led sanctions compliance program for two years for the firm’s APAC business.

Kevin also worked for Haitong Securities Co., Ltd., a leading Chinese securities firm, for about six years before he joined Goldman Sachs. As a compliance officer, he advised the firm on securities regulation issues and later led the firm’s regulatory affair function covering all matters related to risk and compliance reporting, internal control effectiveness evaluation, regulatory inquiries, inspections, and investigations.