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Mr. Gary GAO is the Partner and the Head of the Compliance & Regulatory Department of Zhong Lun Law Firm. In addition, Gary is the Co-Chair of the ESG Committee of the World Bar Association (WLG) (responsible for the Asia Pacific region), the Member of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) Arbitration and ADR Committee, the Distinguished Professor at the Law School of East China University of Political Science and Law and the Specially Invited Lecturer at the SPACE Enterprise Research Institute of the University of Hong Kong Before being admitted by the PRC Bar in 1995, Gary had worked as a criminal judge in a district court in Shanghai since 1990. Gary is an experienced and skilled litigator and arbitrator with near 30 years of experience handling complex, cross-border arbitration, litigation, and sophisticated commercial disputes. Gary has represented clients or acted as arbitrator, in commercial arbitration before the ICC, HKIAC, SIAC, CITEC, BAC, SHIAC and other arbitral institutions. His clients, including the large multinational corporations, the state-owned enterprises, and the large and medium-sized private enterprises, have widely praised him for his service in many international litigation and arbitration cases. Near 30 years of work experience in international dispute resolution and compliance & regulatory gives Mr. Gary GAO a comprehensive understanding of the whole operation of the enterprises, and he is very familiar with international business skills and traps in the negotiations and accumulated rich experience for the compliance of companies. Gary has assisted many multinational enterprises, institutions, and large domestic enterprises in different industries to deal with compliance issues, including coping with cross-border investigations, joint investigations by multinational governments, criminal investigations by overseas law enforcement agencies, building a comprehensive compliance system, cyber security, and data compliance services, state secrets review, judicial assistance and witness preparation for cross-border investigation, strategy for crisis issues and firewall program design and implementation at home and abroad, provide clients with criminal defense, conduct internal compliance investigations on management, initiate criminal procedures and deal with employee dismissals, and provide compliance training services to management, employees and business partners.