Johnny Choi is an Of Counsel in the Employment team, based in DLA Piper's Beijing office. He advises Chinese and foreign multinational clients on employment, remuneration, talent retention/competition and anti-corruption matters in China, and has been based in China for almost 10 years.

Choi has extensive experience in all areas of employment law, including: redundancies, dismissals, HR reorganizations and transfers, employee IP infringements, post-termination restrictive covenants, expatriate secondments, privacy, workplace rules, labor unions and social security.

He has expertise advising technology companies on defending loss of talents and know-how to local competitors. He advises financial institutions and retail companies on the design and implementation of employee compensation and incentive schemes. Choi also recently led a number of investigations into alleged corruption within multinational life science companies and airlines in China and advised on related compliance and employment issues.

Choi has been recognized by Chambers Asia Pacific for his PRC employment expertise consistently since 2013.

Russell Leu is a special counsel in the Corporate Practice Group, residing in the firm's Beijing office. His clients are primarily located in China and the Pacific region. Prior to joining the firm, Leu was the managing attorney and Chief Representative of the Beijing office of a major US law firm and also established his own law practice in the state of Hawaii.

Leu has a unique practice and considerable experience handling both international, corporate and cross-border transactions related to a PRC inbound practice as well as advising clients on US corporate and real estate matters. Because he is US qualified and licensed to practice law in Hawaii and has considerable experience at handling corporate, financing and real estate matters in the US, he routinely assists outbound and international clients with their US interests. Leu is also admitted to appear in the US courts, including the Hawaii state courts and the US District Court.

Leu's practice includes corporate, real estate, banking and finance, litigation, insolvency and real estate matters. He represents major national and local financial institutions, real estate companies and corporate clients. Leu is an active member of the Hawaii State Bar Association and served on the board of the Bankruptcy Law Section of the Hawaii State Bar Association. In addition, he authored numerous articles in the Hawaii State Bar Journal. He frequently speaks at Hawaii State Bar events relating to China outbound investment activity.

Lizzy Li has 8 years of experience specializing in Employee Relations, from the expertise as the HR Employee Relations Lead and previously as the external Legal Counsel. Li joined Pfizer in 2011 when she led the HR Integration Project after a M&A. Now she has assumed HR Employee Relations Lead for Pfizer China and supports Asian Markets on a task basis. Before that, Li was the Employment Law Counsel for FESCO's Legal team serving dozens of prestigious companies from 2008. She graduated from Renmin University of China with a Master's degree of law in 2008.

Yi Li is the general manager at Beijing Foreign Enterprise Human Resources Service, commissioner of the National Bar Association of Labor and Social Security Law Committee(not sure), executive director of the Beijing Labor Law Academy, and commissioner of the Beijing Bar Association One Belt One Road Legal Service Workshop. Li has much hands-on experience regarding employee relations management, contract design, downsizing, and M&A. He has led many complicated consulting projects regarding M&A, regulation reform, downsizing, cooperate democratic management and other areas. Li has served for many years as a legal consultant for some internationally prestigious corporations.

Amanda Shi joined Caterpillar's legal team in 2013 and has been primarily working on anti-bribery compliance and employment law matters, including workforce reduction, executive terminations, labor dispatching, expatriate immigration and other day-to-day employment law issues.

Shi began her career in the private practice with Jingtian and Freshfields for a total of 8 years. She gained extensive experience in litigation and arbitration, mergers & acquisitions, foreign direct investment and various general corporate matters. Prior to joining Caterpillar, Shi served as China General Counsel and Regional Compliance Officer of AES, another US-based multinational company.

Shi passed the PRC Bar Exam in 1998 and was admitted in the State of New York in 2005. She received her LLM from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, her Masters in Law from Peking University and her LL.B. from Renmin University of China. She also studied international law as an exchange student in Japan.

Lydia Zhou is General Manager, Human Resources for ConocoPhillips China. Zhou has over 14 years of experience in human resource roles, which include the oversight of compensation & benefit, succession planning, organizational and leadership development, performance management, staffing and employee relations. Zhou has extensive experiences in talent management during organization changes. She is very passionate for HR practices and how HR can add value to businesses.

Zhou began her career as a teacher in Tsinghua University before moving her career to multinational companies including Kodak, Nortel Networks, Deloitte and ConocoPhillips.

She holds a Master's degree in Human Resources Management from Manchester University and a Bachelor's degree from China Language and Culture University.