Tiffany

● Conduct document review for a high-stakes commercial litigation case involving multiple parties and on DSAR

● Utilize AI assisted tool (including Relativity and Luminance, iManage etc.) to efficiently categorize and prioritize documents for review

● Analyze and code documents for responsiveness, privilege, and key issues

● Collaborat with the litigation team to identify key documents and develop case strategy

● Conduct document review for a complex cross-border M&A transaction

● Utilize Relativity for document review

● Worke closely with Freshfields attorneys to identify key issues and potential deal breakers

● Analyze and code documents for compliance with relevant laws and regulations

● Draft and review commercial agreements, including distribution agreements (to ensure compliance with the EU and UK competition law), consultancy agreements, NDAs, research agreements, lease agreements etc.

● Liaise with all business teams in EMEA and APAC with regards to contract review for new distributors and existing contracts, dispute resolutions and answering queries

● Provide legal advice and keep the business teams updated on the latest development on the EU’s GDPR, UK Data Protection Act and review contracts from the data privacy perspective

● Provide training for China Team on anti-bribery and anti-corruption policy and gift policy

● Draft and prepare corporate documents for directors’ change

● Work with and report to Head of Legal in managing contractual disputes/litigations

● Perform translation on legal documents

● Research laws from different jurisdictions, including China VPN regulations, UAE change of UBO regulatory requirement, world-wide trade sanctions and export control policies etc.

● Liaise with outside counsels on contract drafting, KYC request, and disputes resolution relating to the EMEA and APAC entities

● Organize and present in legal team meetings and meeting with external counsels

● Research and prepare bundles on litigations/ disputes

● Perform daily administrative tasks and ad-hoc projects

Achievements:
- Reduced 10% legal costs by liaising with various external law firms and obtaining the best quotations from them

- Provided timely legal advice to business teams

- Received Paralegal Spotlight award

● Work closely with various business units (including marketing, customer services and the Bank's front-line branches) to provide legal advice on the Terms and Conditions (T&Cs) of customer communication materials

● Draft and review full range of commercial agreement, including Non- disclosure agreements (NDAs) for syndicated loans for loan approval purpose

● Design and develop communication materials for internal client serving teams and external business partners to explain the legal issues to enhance stakeholders’ understanding

● Keep abreast of the legal and regulatory changes in the related law in the Asia-Pacific regions

● Provide legal advice on customers’ complaints handling and replying queries from regulatory authorities

● Supervise the work of summer intern

● Manage the Bank-wide legal costs by monitoring the accounting transactions

● Liaise with external law firms on due diligence, obtaining quotations on various scope of works and legal advice on complicated legal issues on legal technologies, including Regtech and Fintech

● Perform translation of the Policy and Procedure for the Bank from English into Traditional and Simplified Chinese

● Handle court orders for the Bank, together with full spectrum of legal research on ad-hoc legal issues

● Undertake such other duties as may be required from time to time as determined by the Head of Legal, including facilitating the Business Continuity Planning (BCP) during COVID-19 for Legal Team

Achievements:
- Reduced 10% legal costs by liaising with various law firms and obtaining the best quotations from them

- Provided timely legal advice on a retail customer’s complaint by liaising with the Complaint Team and other business units in a call with the customer. The call with the customer has successfully avoided litigation between the Bank and the customer

● Draft and review marketing and other commercial agreements, including celebrity endorsement agreements, sponsorship agreements and joint promotion agreements.

● Initiate the addition of Exclusivity Clause, in order to maintain the competitiveness of firm's position and product, to avoid overexposure and potential reputation and financial loss

● Validate the legal issue for intellectual property (trademarks/logos), including the use of intellectual property by third parties in the sponsorship event (i.e. Concerts, Operas) and defined the rights and obligation of each party, while brand exposure has increased by 30% annually each year

● Conduct legal research on the EU’s GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and understand its scope of application in 2018, updated the internal Privacy Policy guideline to ensure the regulatory compliance

● Perform legal research and provide legal advices across Direct Marketing, Personal Data Protection, Advertising and Trademark to mitigate firm wide’s legal risk in global locations (e.g. Asia-Pacific, U.S. and Canada)

● Liaise and partner with PRC legal teams on marketing materials content review, in order to comply with the new launch regulatory requirements to avoid the use of extreme wordings and those with political sensitivity

● Build relationship with external legal consulting firms in advising complicated legal issues on marketing, promotion and personal data privacy

● Act as a subject matter expert (SME) in performing legal research on Labour Ordinance in various countries, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, Malaysia, Macau, etc.

• Performed trademark search;

• Assisted in drafting trademark specifications and assisted in filing trademark applications locally and internationally;

• Performed legal research and translation

• Performed extensive legal research on areas ranging from sham trust to defraud creditors, late joining of creditors, to neglect of duty in a police disciplinary proceeding

• Assisted the barristers in writing skeleton arguments and developed a good understanding of the daily work of a barrister

• Drafted witness statements and legal correspondence

• Performed legal research on employment law in Hong Kong

• Attended clients meeting

• Handled 40-50 walk-in customers’ orders and 30-40 phone orders a day

• Relayed customer orders

• Monitoring cashier