Wan Li is a partner in the Shanghai office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP. Mr. Wan has over 20 years of experience in China-related matters advising a diverse range of clients in employment, mergers and acquisitions (corporate and cross-border), private equity and corporate matters including restructuring. He has a broad practice focused on foreign direct investments into China and representing Chinese companies in relation to multinational transactions including acquisition of equity and assets of telecommunication, Internet, high-tech, energy and resources, medicine and dairy products companies.

He has been acknowledged as a leading lawyer in China in the M&A practice by IFLR for four consecutive years (2010-2014), a leading lawyer in Greater China in the category of ‘Energy and Natural Resources’ by Chambers Asia (2010-2014), and a leading lawyer in China in the category of ‘Projects and Energy’ by Asia Pacific Legal 500 (2011-2013).

Pete Talibart is co-chair of the International Department of Seyfarth Shaw (UK) LLP and leads the firm’s London office. He is qualified in both Canada and the UK. Pete is employment counsel to major multinationals and financial institutions on strategic cross-border employment issues. His expertise is in all aspects of UK and cross-border employment law, in particular corporate restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance (employment), financial services compliance and ethical issues.

Pete is a popular speaker and has lectured in the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Australia on international employment law issues. He has been published widely in various HR and employment law journals in the UK and in the U.S. including, Corporate Counsel, Financial News, Financial Director, People Management and the Employment Law Journal.

Jason Priebe is a partner in the eDiscovery and Information Governance practice of Seyfarth Shaw. Jason’s current practice focuses on issues involved in electronic discovery preparedness, planning and execution, as well as information privacy, information governance, and data security. He routinely provides legal consultation and advice to several large and diverse corporations and organizations regarding the design and implementation of electronic discovery programs, including the development of policies and procedures for efficiently and defensibly preserving, collecting and producing electronically stored information (ESI). His experience includes serving as an in-house counsel for the nation’s largest publicly traded property and casualty insurer, where he advised on issues involving litigation hold administration, information management, and electronic data discovery process and policy.

Karla Grossenbacher is a partner in Seyfarth Shaw’s Washington, D.C. office concentrating in labor and employment law.  She is Chair of the Washington, D.C. labor and employment practice.  Ms. Grossenbacher serves on the firm’s national Labor and Employment Steering Committee, as well as the Steering Committee of the Firm’s Global Privacy and Security team.

In the privacy area, Ms. Grossenbacher specializes in advising employers on cybersecurity issues, including information security and BYOD policies and data breach response plans.  She is also a frequent presenter, author and blogger on these issues.  Ms. Grossenbacher also has developed and conducted employee identity theft prevention training for a number of local government agencies.

Robert Milligan is a partner in the Litigation and Labor & Employment Departments of Seyfarth Shaw. His practice focuses on trade secret, non-compete and data protection litigation and transactional work on a state, national and international platform. He routinely advises clients on data privacy and security issues.

His practice encompasses a wide variety of commercial litigation and employment matters, including general business and contract disputes, unfair competition, trade secret misappropriation and other intellectual property theft, franchise litigation, real estate litigation, insurance bad faith, invasion of privacy, consumer and employee class actions, wrongful termination, discrimination and harassment claims, wage and hour disputes, ADA and OSHA compliance, whistleblower and SOX cases, bankruptcy and other business torts.

Robert was selected as a Southern California Super Lawyer Rising Star in Intellectual Property and Business Litigation. He is also the editor of Seyfarth’s trade secret blog, www.tradesecretslaw.com, and was recognized by Legal 500 for the firm’s trade secret practice.

John Tomaszewski is a partner in the International Department and co-chairs the Global Privacy & Security practice at Seyfarth. He specializes in emerging technology and its application to business. He has significant experience counseling companies regarding data protection and information security throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia. His clients have included a myriad of technology companies as well as financial services, pharmaceuticals and e-commerce companies of all sizes. John has prepared privacy and security documentation for HR departments, cloud service providers, social media companies and a host of both traditional “brick-and-mortar” and emerging technology clients. He has also developed fair information practice statements, certification practice statements, PKI policies, non-disclosure agreements and similar information security and confidentiality instruments.

John has been a co-author of several information security and privacy publications, including the PKI Accreditation Guidelines and Privacy, Security and Information Management: An Overview; as well as publishing scholarly works of his own on the topic. He has also provided input to the drafting of various security and privacy laws around the world, including the APEC Cross-Border Privacy Rules system, which was included in the White House’s Privacy Bill of Rights initiative in 2012. He is a frequent speaker globally on the topics of privacy, cloud computing, Self-Regulatory Organizations (“SROs”), cross-border privacy schemes and secure e-commerce.

Bart Lazar is a partner in the Chicago office of Seyfarth Shaw LLP.  He counsels clients in intellectual property, data privacy and security, advertising, promotion and related matters.  Mr. Lazar helps clients structure and implement strategies to comply with domestic and international data privacy and security laws and respond to actual and potential security breach incidents.  Mr. Lazar works with clients to execute innovative social and traditional media promotional programs.  He handles copyright, trademark, privacy and new media issues, including advertising, promotion, sweepstakes, marketing, computer software, data use, Internet, employee privacy, cybercrime and entertainment matters.  Mr. Lazar helps clients identify, protect, commercialize and enforce intellectual property rights.  He acts as lead and local counsel in copyright, trademark, counterfeiting and grey market/diversion, false advertising, unfair competition, computer fraud and abuse, and Internet-related litigation, and has obtained numerous ex parte temporary restraining orders and seizure orders to combat piracy.  Mr. Lazar has handled numerous privacy matters before federal and state agencies, including defending the first Internet privacy case brought by the Federal Trade Commission and the first database security breach case brought by the New York Attorney General.