Biography
Ms. Lu routinely leads massive employment projects, such as mass layoffs, restructuring, investigations, and employee unrests/strikes, involving challenging and complex considerations. She also specializes in strategic employment counselling and developing creative employment solutions for multinational corporations in their global transactions and day-to-day operations. She regularly advises clients on all aspects of human resources management, including wages and hours, bonus and benefit plans, handbooks/code of conduct, hiring and terminations, compliance and investigation, data privacy, global assignments, sexual harassment, union issues, strikes and unrests, and labor disputes, etc. Ms. Lu was named the lead lawyer in the employment area by major publications for consecutive years.
She has experience in complex multidistrict litigation in state and federal courts in the United States.
Given Ms. Lu’s combined experience in transactions and litigation and in China and the United States, she can quickly analyze legal and practical strategies in complex cross-border matters and harmonize cultural differences.
Representative Legal Matters
- Led massive terminations involving 3,000 employees in connection with factory closure for a multinational textile company
- Advised multinational pharmaceutical company in a global transaction involving employee transfers in 17 China jurisdictions
- Assisted multinational steel company with workforce restructuring involving termination and re-assignment of hundreds of employees in six business lines and 16 cities
- Successfully defended US pharmaceutical company against wrongful termination claims involving infringement of company trade secrets worth of billion dollars; note: China’s first-ever preliminary injunction for trade secret infringement cases was issued in the connected IP suit
- Assisted multinational appliance company in handling social insurance and housing fund claims worth of USD 11 million, involving tens of thousands of employees in multiple locations
- Led comprehensive investigations toward over a dozen employees, involving corruption, IP infringement, and other global policy violation allegations, for a US listed company
- Assisted US machinery manufacturing company in handling employee strikes and collective demands
- Assisted US listed company with massive labor unrests, involving fraud, theft of trade secret, unfair competition and potential criminal conduct
Professional Honors
Leading Individual (Labor and Employment, Foreign Firms, China) – Legal 500 Asia Pacific (2019-2022)
Leading Lawyer (Employment: Mainland China-based (International Firms): China) – Chambers Greater China Region (2022)
Leading Lawyer (Employment: PRC Law (International Firms): China) – Chambers Asia Pacific (2016-2021)
Rising Star of the Year, China Law & Practice (2015-2016)
Up-and-Coming Lawyer – Employment: PRC Law (International Firms), Chambers Asia Pacific (2015)
Admission
Missouri, USA
Education
University of lowa College of Law (J.D.)(2004)
University of lowa College of Law (LL.M.)(2001)
East China University of Politics and Law (LL.B.)(2000)
Languages
English
Mandarin
Shanghainese