Greater China Region
Practice Areas
Regulatory Compliance (cybersecurity and data privacy, antitrust, anti-corruption and trade), Corporate and Commerce, M&A, Cross-border Transactions, PE/VC.
Career
Dr. David Pan has practiced law in China and in the U.S. over 20 years. He accumulated an in-depth knowledge on Chinese and international business culture and legal systems. Before joining Llinks, Dr. Pan worked in two well-known Chinese law firms, and most recently worked for a Fortune 500 Company as its General Counsel for Greater China. In addition to his corporate services such as mergers and acquisitions, joint venture, technology license etc., Dr. Pan specializes in various compliance matters including anti-trust, anti-corruption, cybersecurity and data protection, export control and sanctions. The clients that he represented spread over various industries, including auto, investment, energy, pharmaceutical, chemical, medical, food, advanced manufacturing, sports and entertainment, retail and consumer, real estate.
Professional Memberships
Dr. Pan acts as an adjunct professor in Law School of Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Shanghai Advanced Institute of Finance etc., director of Data Protection Committee of Shanghai Bar Association, an examiner expert of Shanghai United Assets and Equity Exchange, third party evaluation expert for Shanghai Pilot Program of Non-prosecution Compliance.
Publications
The Bluebook of PRC Cybersecurity and Data Compliance, 2019, Wolters Kluwer
China Chapter, Merger Control Country Comparative Guide, 2020, the Legal 500
Personal
David received his LLM degree from Harvard Law School, and Ph.D. in law from Shanghai Jiaotong University school of law.
Dr. Pan is highly recommended as a leading lawyer in fields of corporate compliance, antitrust and competition, cybersecurity and data by rating agencies like ALB, Chambers, Legal500, LEGALBAND, Who’s Who Legal, The Asian Lawyer, asialaw Profiles, China Business Law Journal and Legal Hall of Fame (Legal Guru Club).
Work Highlights
Based on his thorough understanding on business operations, Dr. Pan also specializes in providing companies with practical solution-oriented services in the regulatory compliance areas of anti-corruption, antitrust, and anti-unfair competition.
Dr. Pan represents MNCs in data and cybersecurity related legal matters, such as offshore server, log records storage and filing, personal data collection and use, data integrity, centralized data process, differentiation between trade secrets and state secrets etc. In the course of handling these cases, Dr. Pan gained solid practical experiences in this field. Dr. Pan has served clients in healthcare, auto, tourism, e-commerce, retail, education, services, finance, fintech, and manufacturing in the establishment and improvement of compliance system in the entire process of data collection, storage, usage, transfer, and destruction, and provided compliance solutions for cyber security, digital transformation, data asset and transaction, and big data.
Languages Spoken
Mandarin and English.
