The data protection landscape in the Asia Pacific Region (APAC) is undergoing significant transformation in the last decade. Many major economies in the region are seeking to implement more holistic approaches to data protection requirements, taking cues from the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Contemporary data protection regimes have a broad focus on organizational accountability for data protection compliance, including greater management oversight, more rigorous procedures directed at achieving compliance in fact and forward-looking policies that seek to ensure that all functional areas of the organization carry out their roles with data protection considerations in mind.
Navigating data protection and cybersecurity issues in a mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transaction amid the myriad of different data protection laws in the APAC region can often be challenging, especially for target groups with operations across multiple regions. Our Guide will take you through these issues at each stage of an M&A transaction, from the preliminary stages, due diligence, signing to closing, to post-closing.
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Authored by Mark Parsons, Sherry Gong, Mark Vincent, Tommy Liu, Nicola Choi, and Flora Feng.
