On May 18, the famous legal media China Business Law Journal (“CBLJ”) announced winners of its 2021 China Business Law Awards. Watson & Band, with its professional strengths and outstanding performance in data law area, again won the annual award in the “Privacy and Data Protection” area this year.

Watson & Band's data law service team continued its legal researches and explorations in the data industry. Our senior partner, Prof. Fuping Gao from the East China University of Political Science and Law, accepted interviews from various media and shared his opinions on the hot issues occurring in the past year. Meanwhile, he also delivered a keynote speech at the Fourth Session of the Thirteenth Shanghai Political Consultative Conference, in which he suggested that Shanghai should propose digital transformation on its agenda and develop data economy accordingly.

In the digital age, our professional team will center on the enterprises'needs for data flow and governance, grasp the market opportunities brought by the digital transformation and provide compliance plans and solutions for the enterprises data governance, data flow and data capitalization. We are dedicated to providing customized solutions for the enterprises’ legitimate and safe utilization of their data and enhance the enterprises’ competitiveness in data economy.

CBLJ's China Business Law Awards aim to recognize and praise law firms with outstanding performance in various practice areas and industry sectors in the previous year. In this year’s Awards, CBLJ conducted months of surveys and selections based on its constant attention to and reports on China’s legal market, listened to direct feedback from the market and observed thousands of votes and recommendations from domestic and overseas in-house counsels, management and decision makers, legal scholars and government officials; meanwhile, CBLJ also referred to deals, cases and other prominent achievements of the law firms in the previous year, and finally worked out the award-winner list to reflect the legal market status.