Global Law Office

Yanming Zhao is a partner at Global Law Office, permanently stationed in Shenzhen. His primary practice areas include digital economy, cybersecurity and data protection, compliance and risk management, artificial intelligence, and finance technology sectors.

Yanming Zhao focuses on industries such as the Internet, artificial intelligence, finance, healthcare, automotive, and energy, providing clients with full-cycle data compliance legal services at the investment end, asset end, transaction end, and dispute resolution end. This includes representing investment institutions in conducting data compliance legal due diligence on invested enterprises, representing companies planning for an IPO to issue special legal opinions on data compliance, and offering legal services for enterprises in data compliance rectification, construction of data compliance systems, compliance argumentation for the development and utilization of data resources, and compliance assessment of data transactions, and participated in multiple data-related legislative projects as well as major national and local research topics.

Yanming Zhao’s clients include Qianhai Authority, Shenzhen Data Exchange, Hunan Big Data Exchange, Qingdao Big Data Exchange Center, Tencent, Xiaomi, China Resources Shouzheng, Ping An Bank, China United SME Guarantee Corporation, New Hope Gas, Kingdee Group, Futian Industrial Investment, Shenzhen Credit, China Securities Credit, China International Payment, BaiRong YunChuang, Lexin, Weixin Financial, Doushabao, Yunnan Cultural Tourism, Susumao, Shendu Data, Guoxin Health, and Li Xiang.

Chinese, English

Admitted to practice in the PRC

Certified Data Management Professional (CDMP)

Cybersecurity Competence Certification (Certification Category: Data Cross-border Security Management)

DEKRA Certified AI Governance Professional (CAIGP)

LL.B., Zhongnan University of Economics and Law