Vivian Chua

- Provision of legal advice on legislative and regulatory matters applicable to social media platforms across APAC including in Australia, India, Japan and Singapore (and across South East Asia), conducting new legislative review and analysis and partnering with X's Product Counsel, Global Government Affairs, Litigation, Compliance, Privacy and other teams.
- Work in close collaboration with X's Global Compliance Function, Product Counsel and other legal and business teams in the review, implementation and monitoring of applicable laws pertaining to social media platforms.
- Review and analyse legal risks related to regulatory and policy issues important for X and the people who use our platform.
- Directly contribute to and help coordinate responses to external inquiries and administrative procedures related to legal and regulatory matters, including collaborating effectively with outside counsel.
- Support regulatory engagements with governments, lawmakers and policymakers, including helping to prepare materials.
- Partner with X's Global Government Affairs team to monitor legal issues related to public policy priorities in the APAC region.
- Support and collaborate with local teams to lead on regulatory or policy matters in-country depending on priorities.

- Provided legal advice and support on tax/ transfer pricing related matters for Bytedance and Bytedance's affiliated companies in Singapore, United Kingdom, United States, China, Hong Kong, Pakistan, India and other jurisdictions.

- Supported India legal/ tax teams to assist Bytedance India on reviewing various Mobile Preload Agreements and assisted the teams throughout TikTok/ Helo appealing processes when both products were banned in India.

- Provided legal opinion and support to tax/ transfer pricing teams to prepare Cost Sharing Agreement for cross border transactions which will be recorded in both Bytedance Pte. Ltd/ TikTok Pte. Ltd.'s financial book keepings.

- Attended various licensing meetings with the Technical and Operational Support IT colleagues from Beijing, London, Mountain View and Singapore to review Canon MEAP application forms and assisted Bytedance in preparing Software Licensing and Development Agreement for APAC.

- Supported HR Legal, HROE and HRBP to review Independent Contractor Agreements, MOI, General Service Agreements and resolved potential corporate legal/ payroll issues for Bytedance Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

- Mentored and provided daily guidance/ support to team members, junior counsels and interns in the SEA Legal team.

- Provided support and legal advice to Beijing, Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines Ops teams to facilitate new features on TikTok, launching UG projects, TikTok Live streams, HTCs, review TikTok internal verification SOP, TikTok Celebrity Leaderboard rules and more.

- Resolved safety issues for Bytedance Singapore by ensuring that the company is in compliance with MOM's rules to implement safe management measures throughout Covid-19.

- Supported Global Real Estate team to negotiate and review Letters of Offer, Lease Agreements for One Raffles Quay, Guoco Tower, Asia Square for Bytedance new offices expansion in Singapore.

- Attended meetings organized by MDEC and provided legal support to the data center and functional teams to apply tax incentives with the Malaysian government.

-Provided legal advice to TnS LERT/ local Ops teams to resolve potential issues arising from various TikTok contents and assisted GR/ PR/ Ops to review TikTok's official responses before the company responded to any users who filed an appeal against the blocked contents or complaints in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines.

- Engaged local corporate secretarial firms in Singapore, Malaysia and the Philippines to facilitate the filing process of setting up new legal entities for Bytedance with ACRA, SSM and SEC when there's a new product launching or new project initiation within the region.

- Provided legal support to Bytedance Beijing data center team on setting up offshore data center in Johor Bahru, Malaysia and potentially in Singapore (subject to upper management's approval).

- Drafted, reviewed and advised all aspect of corporate legal documents.

- Drafted, reviewed and advised legal documents in Chinese and worked closely with PRC counterparts and PRC external counsels.

- Liaison for the Group's corporate secretarial function.

- Advised and supported the Board of Directors in their legal and fiduciary role under the SGXST rules, relevant statutes and regulations.

- Provided legal advice to the Group's business entities and ensured compliance with statutory requirements as well as the Group policies and practices, including but not limited to the Companies Act (Cap. 50) and SGX-ST Listing Rules.

- Reviewed and managed contracts, agreements and documentations with the Group's business partners and government authorities to ensure that the terms are in compliance with corporate policy.

- Lead legal due diligence for various projects (Mergers and Acquisitions, Joint Ventures, Banking Facilities etc.)

- Provided legal advice on various transactions, including corporate finance and cross-border M&A.

- Handled Trademarks and Copyrights related matters for the Group and provided legal advice on Intellectual Property issues.

- Managed and provided legal support in ad-hoc projects or activities that has legal/ regulatory impact to the Group.

- Maintained oversight of the statutory reporting for all legal entities across multiple jurisdictions.

- Provided legal advice on Employment Law and obligations of the Group.

- Reviewed and edited internal regulatory documents, including Memorandum and Articles of Association/ Constitution for the Group.

- Drafted and reviewed contracts such as leases, licenses, distribution agreements, non-disclosure agreements, manufacturing contracts and more.

- Advised clients to manage and protect their corporate commercial portfolios.

- Drafted and reviewed legal documents in Chinese and worked closely with PRC external counsels.

- Managed clients’ Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Licensing portfolios in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, United States, United Kingdom and other jurisdictions.

- Advised on cross border transactions such as domain name search, corporate IP due diligences, reviewing/ drafting branding agreements, collaboration agreements, distribution agreements, assignment agreements and transfers of ownerships for IP matters in different jurisdictions.

- Handled multinational IP portfolios through MyIPO (Malaysia Intellectual Property Office), IPOS (Intellectual Property Office of Singapore) and BruIPO (Brunei Darussalam Intellectual Property Office).

- Negotiated and interpreted agreements for corporate IP related matters.

- Handled IP enforcement matters, conducted enforcement actions against potential infringers and handled IP dispute resolutions.

- Handled and resolved legal issues concerned with obtaining copyrights title.

- Handled foreign franchise applications/ registrations and franchise advisory matters.

- Handled foreign trademark applications/registrations and to protect IP right s for client groups to ensure all company operations adhere to IP laws in different jurisdictions.

- Implemented IP strategy initiatives, analysed and provided legal opinions.

- Reviewed licensing agreements and resolved issues concerned with obtaining trademarks and patents licensing.

- Assisted in process development and streamlining activities to improve IP department effectiveness.

- Handled domain name search and verification check.

- Handled corporate and IP due diligences to provide legal support for mergers and acquisitions.

- Represented clients at courts and administrative bodies.

- Interacted with patent analysts, inventors, client organizations and third parties.

- Provided guidance on intellectual property strategies as well as analyzed third-party intellectual property competitive intelligence related to client strategies.

- Provided infringement/ validity opinions and successfully cease and desist infringement actions.

- Conducted seminars on Intellectual Property to raise public awareness.

- Created implementation and product branding agreements.

- Qualified as an advocate and solicitor in the High Court of Malaya.

- Retained and officially joined the Intellectual Property, Information Technology and Licensing Department.

- Volunteered and assisted in Legal Aid

- Mitigated remand orders on behalf of suspects in the lock up and remand centre

- Assisted in patent and trademark searches

- Assisted in legal research and note taking in a case trial for DJ Auto Components Manufacturing Sdn Bhd v FBK Systems Sdn Bhd

- Assisted in legal research and note taking in a case trial for F&N Dairies (Malaysia) Sdn Bhd v Tropicana Products, Inc

- Assisted in drafting opinion writing and legal research for IP related matters.