Grace Chen is of counsel at Covington & Burling in Beijing. She handles commercial transactions focusing on the IT, e-commerce, life science and health care sectors, and she advises companies on employment, data privacy & cybersecurity and IT regulatory issues in China. Grace has extensive experience representing companies on their commercial transactions and counseling them on IT regulatory, data protection and cybersecurity issues relevant to their China operations, including domestic and cross-border collection, storage, processing, and use of personal data, privacy and monitoring in the workplace, and network security, focusing on both legal and regulatory compliance as well as industry-driven best practices. Her work includes providing strategic advice relating to cloud computing, data protection in consumer and health care context, mobile positioning and locator services, telematics services, online advertising, social media, and e-commerce.