Practice Areas

Maggie Meng is a partner of Global Law Office based in Beijing. Her main practice areas are cyber security, data security, personal information and privacy protection, e-commerce and digital economy compliance. She manages a team of over 20 dedicated data compliance lawyers.

 

Maggie Meng has extensive expertise and proficiency in delivering data compliance advise and related services to domestic and foreign enterprises in industries such as Internet, artificial intelligence, connected vehicles and autonomous vehicles, IoT, communications, cloud computing services, IDC, e-commerce and retail, fintech, health care and life science, transportation and infrastructure, advertising and marketing, big data etc. Maggie Meng has rich experience and professional skills in assisting clients to improve their data compliance capabilities and enhance strategies, interpreting data protection related legal/regulatory requirements, analyzing and evaluating the potential impact on business operations, guiding the personal information and data security management process, communicating and coordinating with government and regulatory agencies, and assisting in the implementation of security measures or data localization requirements.

 

Maggie Meng has more than 16 years of internal and external legal service experience. She previously worked at a well-known law firm, served as the chief counsel of a Fortune 500 multinational company and a global unicorn company, and as the general counsel, director of government relations affairs and data protection officer of a domestic AI unicorn company. Her clients include Tencent, Alibaba, Huawei, Microsoft, Baidu, Xiaomi, ByteDance, NetEase, Agricultural Bank of China, Civil Aviation Information Group, PICC, Medtronic, Wuxi Biologics, Samsung, HP, LG, ZTE, Mengniu, Liby, Perfect World, iQiyi, Meituan, Zhihu, AutoNavi, Supor, China Merchants Group, Tianjin Port, Moutai Group, etc. Maggie Meng has also advised and provide data compliance training to senior managers of many state-owned enterprises.

 

With the evolving laws development of the national digital economy and increased focuses on the digitalization and the intelligent technology, Maggie Meng has provided legal services and practical advices for many enterprises on building up 2C, 2B, CDP, DMP, CRM and ERP platforms etc., ensuring the data interactive operation and processing between different platforms, and developing trust with clients. At the same time, she is committed to supporting enterprises to strengthen their innovation, research and development, and digital and intelligent transformation under the framework of compliance.

Work Experience

Partner, Beijing Global Law Office

General Counsel, Director of Government Affairs, DPO, Mobvoi

Chief Legal Counsel of China, Criteo Advertising,

Legal Counsel of Greater China, Nokia Investment (China) Co., Ltd

Attorney, Broad & Bright Law Firm

Admission

Admitted in the PRC

Education

Bachelor's degree in law from Peking University

Master’s degree in law from Temple University, USA

MBA degree from Ocean University of China

Awards
  • The final winners of the 2022 China Law Awards were named "Best Cyber Security and Data Compliance Law Firm of the Year"
  • Chambers' Greater China Data Protection and Privacy practice in 2023 ranked as the "second Tier Law Firm in China"
  • Chambers Greater China was selected in the "Data Privacy Protection" Recommended Lawyers List of the Legal Guide in 2022-2023
  • Chambers of greater China in 2022 legal guide "science and technology, media and telecommunications" lawyer recommended list
  • Commerce Law's Rising Stars List in 2022
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 Top-tier firm in Data Protection
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 Recommended Lawyer in Data Protection
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 Recommended Lawyer in TMT
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 Recommended Lawyer in Fintech
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 Recommended Lawyer in Regulatory & Compliance
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2023 Data Protection areas leading Lawyers
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022-2023 Leading Lawyer in Fintech
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021-2023 Leading Individuals in TMT
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021-2023 Leading Individuals in the Data Protection
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2021 Practice heads in Fintech
  • The Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2020 Specially Recommended Lawyers in TMT
  • Global Data Review: 2022 women expert Data field.
  • Benchmark Litigation China 2022 Government and regulatory Litigation Star
  • LEGALBAND 2019-2023 China Top Ranked Law Firms network data security and compliance first Echelon
  • LEGALBAND 2022 China Top Lawyers-Digital Economy
  • LEGALBAND 2022 China Top Lawyers List: Top Tier of Cyber Security and Data Compliance
  • LEGALBAND 2022 China Top 15 Innovative Lawyers
  • LEGALBAND 2021 China Top 15 Lawyers-Cybersecurity and Data Compliance
  • LEGALBAND 2021 China Top 15 Lawyer-Automotive and New Energy
  • LEGALBAND 2021 China Top 15 Lawyer- Consumer and Retail
  • LEGALBAND 2020 China Top 15 Lawyers-Cybersecurity and Data Compliance
  • ALB China Law Awards 2023 Woman Lawyer of the Year
Associations and Memberships
  • Experts from the Thousand Foreign Lawyers Expert Database of Beijing Lawyers Association
  • The council of Beijing Comparative Law Research Association
  • The council of the Network and Information Law Research Association
  • Senior Researcher, University of International Business and Economics
  • Off campus supervisor for Capital Normal University
Publications

Participated in Drafting National/Industry Standards

  • Social Responsibility for Data Security and Personal Information Protection
  • Data Compliance Management System Requirements
  • Information Security Technology Face recognition Data Security Requirements
  • Participated in writing "Legal Liability and Supplementary Provisions" and "Classification and Classification Implementation Reference Case" in "Data Security Law: Implementation Reference"

Independently Written White Paper

  • The China Chapter of Chambers: Global Data Compliance and Privacy Trends and Development Guide
  • Report on Regulatory Requirements for Personal Information Protection
  • New Regulations on Cybersecurity and Data Compliance
  • Guide on the Cybersecurity Review Approach
  • China Data Compliance Annual Report (2021)
  • A Tribute to 2022, Year of Maturity for Data Compliance: Regulatory Activity Summary and Trend Forecast (Chinese and English versions)

Co-authored White Papers

  • The SDK Security and Compliance Report v1.0 and v2.0 with China Academy of Information and Communications Technology
  • Personalized Display Security and Compliance Report, co-authored with China Academy of Information and Communications Technology and Nandu Daily Personal Information Protection Research Center
  • Guidelines on Data Globalization and Privacy Protection, in cooperation with Wolters Kluwer (Chinese and English versions)
  • Cookie Compliance Guidelines Report, Cooperated with Xiaomi Group 
  • The Construction of Personal Information Compliance System under the Compatibility of Domestic and Foreign Standards, cooperated with Microsoft Corporation
  • Enterprise Data Rights Confirmation and Global Compliance Trends (2023), co-authored with Technology Innovation Research Center of Tsinghua University, DAMA (International Data Management Association)
  • The Investigation and Analysis Report on the Cross-border Data Transfer, co-authored with the Southern Financial Group

Published Books

  • Data Compliance-Introduction, Practice and Advancement
  • Understanding and Implementation of the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China

Professional Articles and Reviews

Maggie Meng's team has published hundreds of professional articles, including: the series titled Interpretation of the Personal Information Protection Law, Observation of the First Anniversary of the Implementation of the Personal Information Protection Law, Compliance Guidelines on Data Exportation, series Interpretation of Cyber Security Review, the Data Security Law, Facial Recognition Technology Act, and Comments on the Didi Incident, Summary of compliance key points of network security management and grade protection in the power industry" "Legal risks related to new monopoly mode" "Internet platform data collection and processing under antitrust supervision" "Data compliance concerns in A-share declaration" "Internet Data Centers a Discussion on Key points of Data Compliance ".

Languages
Chinese,English