Grace Young Partner
Shanghai
021-58785888
aoshuang.yang@dentons.cn
  • Employment and Labor
  • Compliance and Risk Management
  • IP and Technology Innovation
  • Criminal Law
  • Working Language:
  • Chinese
  • English

Introduction

Grace is a partner lawyer of Beijing Dacheng (Shanghai) Law Firm, co-leader of Dacheng Labor and Human Resources, and head of Dacheng Shanghai Labor and Human Resources Professional Group. Before joining Dacheng, she served as a labor and personnel arbitrator in Shanghai for many years and then worked as a partner lawyer in a top labor law firm in China. She has been focusing on human resources compliance management and labor dispute resolution for 21 years. She joined Dacheng Law Firm in 2012. Grace has been selected as one of the LEGALBAND Client Choice: Top 15 Labor and Employment Lawyers in 2024, the Legal 500 Labor and Employment Recommended Lawyers in 2023, and the Asia Legal Awards Employment Lawyer of the Year in 2023. She has also been selected as one of the boutique labor lawyers in the "Guide to Boutique Labour Law Brands 2023" published by LEGAL VISION and has been awarded the "Brand Star Top 30 Finalist Lawyers" award. Grace's services cover many fields in litigation and non-litigation: employment contract termination, negotiation, industrial injury, labor and personnel regulation review, employee personal privacy protection, data security, ESOP, equity incentives, non-competition and trade secret protection, equal employment - anti-discrimination and anti-harassment, occupational health, safety production, salary, bonuses and benefits, social insurance and payment, anti-corruption and investigation, human resources compliance, labor and personnel dispute resolution, corporate legal counsel, etc.

Honors and Awards

  • LEGALBAND Client Choice: Top 15 Labor and Employment Lawyers(2024), LEGALBAND
  • Labor and Employment Recommended Lawyers(2023), The Legal 500
  • Employment Lawyer of the Year(2023), Asia Legal Awards
  • One of the boutique labor lawyers in the " Guide to Boutique Labor Law Brands 2023"(2023), LEGAL VISION
  • Brand Star Top 30 Finalist Lawyers(2023), LEGAL VISION

Representative Projects/Matters

Assisted a financial institution in conducting internal investigation and mediation of employee occupational crime.

Provided legal services for a large-scale layoff project of an affiliate of a Fortune 500 company (Number of layoffs: more than 260 employees)

Provided localized HR policies and documents in accordance with employment and labor laws of P.R.C. and pharmaceutical-related laws and regulations

Reviewed HR compliance effectiveness for a large company, and issued legal analysis and rectification report.

Analyzed and evaluated the legal risks in the ESOP project of a foreign-invested company, and issued legal opinion.

Represented banking, securities and other financial companies in several employment disputes regarding performance/deferred bonus

Represented a Shanghai tertiary A-level hospital in a labor dispute with doctors, which lasted for more than two years

Worked with Dentons overseas office to assist a company with HR and labor compliance issues in setting up overseas branches

Conducted compliance audits on employee personal information protection for several labor-intensive enterprises.

Activities and Affiliations

  • Shanghai Pudong New District Women Lawyers Association , Supervisor of the first board of supervisors

Academic Achievements

  • Guidelines for the Operation of Lawyers Engaging in Enterprise Labor and Personnel Legal Consultants (2021)
  • Resumption of work and production and legal difficulties in dealing with epidemic-related labor relations - termination of employment contracts
  • Judicial Practice for ESOP (Series)
  • Employee Confidentiality and Non-competition (Series)
  • Workplace Sexual Harassment (Series)
  • The protection of Employee personal information (Series)

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