On June 30, 2025, the renowned legal rating agency LegalOne released its “LegalOne Blue Ribbon 2025: Data Legal Services” list, in which Yunfei Xu, a partner at Zhonglun W&D Law Firm, was recognized for his professional expertise and outstanding reputation in the field.

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Yunfei Xu
Partner

Mobile: +86 138 1121 1393
Tel: 010-8567 3688
Email: xuyunfei@zlwd.com

Yunfei Xu holds a Master of Laws from Renmin University of China and is a partner at Zhonglun W&D Law Firm in Beijing. He is also an EXIN-certified Data Protection Officer (DPO) and serves as the Director of the Cybersecurity and Data Compliance Committee, the Artificial Intelligence Legal Committee, and the East Asia Legal Business Committee at Zhonglun W&D Law Firm. Previously, he worked at JunHe LLP (during which he was seconded to the legal department of Itochu Corporation in Japan) and the First Research Institute of the Ministry of Information Industry (now renamed the Electronic Technology Information Research Institute of MIIT).

Yunfei Xu has been recognized in numerous prestigious rankings, including the “2025 ALB China Top 15 Cybersecurity & Data Protection Lawyers”, the “2020 and 2022 LEGALBAND China Top 15 Lawyers in Cybersecurity and Data Compliance”, the “2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and 2025 (First Band) LEGALBAND China Top Ranked Lawyers in Cybersecurity and Data Compliance”, the “Exterro ACE 2021 Top 15 Data Privacy Lawyers”, the “2022 Top 15 Legal Tech Lawyers”, the “2023 Top 20 Legal Tech Lawyers”, the “2024 GRCD Lawyer of Choice: Compliance Lawyer (Cybersecurity & Data Protection)”, and the “Lexpress 2024 Top Ranked Lawyers in Data Compliance”.

Lawyer Xu specializes in cross-border data transfer, data compliance due diligence, the establishment of data compliance systems, drafting and formulating data compliance legal documents, data compliance training, handling data breach incidents and response investigation, as well as providing legal services for complex data protection issues in business operations. He has provided data compliance-related legal services to numerous domestic and international companies, accumulating extensive experience in data compliance.

LegalOne is an independent global cases research and evaluation agency specializing in commercial transactions and dispute resolution. The "Blue Ribbon" award is designed to recognize lawyers who have achieved outstanding accomplishments in key, hot, or emerging areas of the local legal services market over the past year, with the recognized practice areas potentially adjusted annually based on the latest trends in the regional legal service market.