Areas of Practice

• Employment
• E-Commerce
• Intellectual Property
• Real Estate & Construction

About Dr Wan

Leader of TransAsia's employment law practice and co-leader of its intellectual property law practice, Dr Wan has 20 years' experience in advising clients on foreign direct investments in China. Dr Wan is the first non-PRC national to serve as a Director of the China Labor Law Studies Association, following her nomination in 1997 by the PRC Ministry of Labor & Social Security (MOLSS, now known as the Ministry of Human Resources & Social Security). In 2006, she was appointed as a Director of the China Social Security Law Research Association, where she is the only representative from the Hong Kong SAR.

Government Advisory and Pro Bono Work

In 2004, Dr Wan advised the MOLSS on the 2004 Regulations on Labor and Social Security Supervision, and the MOLSS and All-China Federation of Trade Unions on the landmark PRC Employment Contract Law (effective as of 1 January 2008). She also participated in the discussions on the amendment to the PRC Elderly People's Protection Law (2008).

Dr Wan is also an adjunct profession of PRC employment law at both the Peking University Law School and the Northwest Politics & Law University Law School, as well as a Master Tutor of International Business at the Shanghai University for Science and Technology. She is also a regular guest lecturer at Tsinghua University's MBA program.

Dr Wan was also invited to participate in the drafting of the 2005 PRC Electronic Signature Law, and frequently participates in various legislative work relating to online transactions and e-commerce. She was also one of the three advisors to the government in the drafting of the 2009 Guiding Opinions on the Protection of Online Commercial Data.

Awards and Directorships

• Head of TransAsia's employment law practice, where the firm was awarded "Law Firm of the Year" for employment law in China for 2010 and 2011 by Chambers & Partners; recently, the employment law team was also by China Law & Practice as the "PRC Team of the Year 2011 for Labor & Employment" and was also selected as a Tier 1 firm by The Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2012)
• Deputy-Director of the China E-Commerce Association Legal Committee
• Voted as one of Asia's "Leading Lawyers" for 2012 by Asialaw Profiles
• Voted as one of "Asia's Leading Lawyers" in 2002 and 2004-2012 in the area of PRC employment law (Asia Law & Practice)
• Winner of the 2003 "China Labor Lawyer of the Year" Award
• Awarded a Silver Medal in 2004 by the China Labor Law Studies Association for contributions towards the compilation and drafting of China Labor and Social Security Law - Essential Facts Explained

Major Publications

• China Labor and Social Security Law - Essential Facts Explained (CCH 1998, as the Founding Author)
• China Employee Wages - Statistics and Analysis (CCH 2001)
• A Professional's Guide to PRC Land Legislation (Sweet & Maxwell 1999)
• Legal Issues Relating to E-Commerce (China Law Press 2001)
• Legal Issues Relating to Electronic Signatures (People's Court Press 2001)
• Handling Employment and Labor Disputes in China (Kluwer Law International 2007)
• The Handling of Labor Disputes - Combination of Theory and Practice (Tsinghua Law Review 2007)
• The Employment contract Law: Implementation Strategy and Risk Prevention (TransAsia 2009, as the Chief Editor)
• The Interpretation of the Employment Contract Law of the People's Republic of China (written by the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, and translated into English by TransAsia) (TransAsia 2010)
• Using Employment Contracts Skillfully & Reducing Labor Disputes (written by Dr. Chen Peiong and edited by Dr Wan, and translated into English by TransAsia) (TransAsia 2010)
• Chinese E-Commerce Report 2008-2009 (Ministry of Commerce and Tsinghua University Press 2010)

Speeches and Conferences

Dr Wan is regularly invited to speak at international conferences on topics relating to PRC employment law and e-commerce law. For details, please see our events page.

Key Clients


• Accenture
• Adobe
• Airbus
• Amazon.com / Joyo.com 
• AVIC 
• BBC
• Bertelsmann
• Bombardier 
• Camus
• Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
• Cargill 
• CBS Broadcasting Inc
• CCTV
• CNBC
• CNN
• Chevron
• Citigroup
• Coca-Cola
• Dassault Systems
• DFS
  
• Electronic Arts
  
• Ericsson
• ESPN 
• Fiat Industrial
• GE
• GIC Special Investments
• Goodrich 
• Google   
• Henkel
• Hermès
• H & M
• Home Depot
• Inditex (Zara)
• Intercontinental Hotels Group
• IVG 
• Jardine Matheson
• Lexis Nexis 
• Lloyd's Register
• LVMH
• Marsh
• McDermott International Inc.
• McGraw-Hill 
• Microsoft
• New York Times
• News Corporation
• PepsiCo 
• Philip Morris
• Rolex
• Royal Bank of Scotland
• Schneider Electric
• Schering-Plough
  
• Sohu.com
• Standard Chartered Bank
• Thomson Reuters
• Time Warner
• Tyco International
• Unilever
• Veolia Water
• Visa
• Walt Disney