Zheng Lu

Practice Areas

Lu Zheng 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.

Industry Sector Expertise

IMT; Healthcare and Life sciences; CG&R

Languages Spoken

English

Mandarin

Experience

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.

Advised multinational steel company on 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.

Advised 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.

Advised US machinery manufacturing company in handling employee strikes and collective demands.

Advised US listed company on massive labor unrests, involving fraud, theft of trade secret, unfair competition and potential criminal conduct.

Work Highlights

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.

Advised multinational steel company on 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.

Advised 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.

Advised US machinery manufacturing company in handling employee strikes and collective demands.

Advised US listed company on massive labor unrests, involving fraud, theft of trade secret, unfair competition and potential criminal conduct.

Education

Awards