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George Qi

George Qi is the Co-Managing Shareholder in the firm's Shanghai office and Co-Chair of the firm's China Practice. He practices primarily in China-related cross- border mergers and acquisitions, foreign direct investment and general corporate matters. He also has wide- ranging experience advising both U.S. and non-U.S. companies relating to internal investigations of FCPA or other regulatory violations.

China’s new Automotive Data Cross-border Transfer Guidelines are most useful when read through four practical questions for industry participants: what counts as automotive data, what conduct constitutes a cross-border transfer, which transfers may now benefit from exemptions, and which categories of data remain likely to attract heightened scrutiny as important data.
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On March 22, 2024, the centralized regulator of cyber and data security, the Cybersecurity Administration of China (CAC), published the Provisions on Promoting and Regulating the Cross-border Flow of Data (New Provisions), relaxing the existing requirements relating to cross-border data transfers. The New Provisions took immediate effect on March 22, 2024.

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On Aug. 20, 2021, after two rounds of public comments on China’s draft Personal Information Protection Law (PIPL), China promulgated the final version of the PIPL, which takes effect Nov. 1, 2021. Together, the PIPL, Cybersecurity Law (which came into force June 1, 2017) and Data Security Law (which came into