Joanna Chen is a Senior Associate Lawyer at Remedios Lawyers Law Corporation. After practising with Remedios & Company Law Corporation, Joanna has decided to join Remedios Lawyers, where she continues to advise businesses, entrepreneurs, organizations, and individuals on a broad range of corporate and commercial, privacy, artificial intelligence, real estate, and wills and estates matters.
Prior to joining private practice in Canada, Joanna served as legal counsel for a leading Fortune 500 company and a U.S.-listed public company for more than ten years in China. During this time, she gained extensive experience advising multinational businesses on corporate and commercial transactions, regulatory compliance, employment law, privacy, risk management, litigation, arbitration, and cross-border legal matters.
Joanna is qualified to practise law in both British Columbia and the People's Republic of China, allowing her to advise clients on legal matters involving Canada, China, and other international jurisdictions. Her practice includes corporate governance, commercial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, privacy and data protection, artificial intelligence governance, commercial real estate, wills and estates, and regulatory compliance. She regularly assists clients with complex domestic and cross-border transactions, providing practical, strategic, and business-focused legal advice.
Joanna holds three master's degrees in law from the University of British Columbia, Temple University in the United States, and Shanghai University of International Business and Economics in China. She is also a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Canada (CIPP/C) and an Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP), reflecting her particular expertise in privacy, cybersecurity, data governance, and emerging technologies.
Committed to public service, Joanna has been actively involved in pro bono legal initiatives throughout her career. She previously led a team of 15 lawyers providing pro bono legal services to communities in China and is a co-founder and Legal Counsel of the Beijing Pro Bono Foundation, an organization established to promote and support the development of pro bono legal services.
Joanna is a member of the Law Society of British Columbia and the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.