Edison Tang, Chief Operating Officer

An experienced corporate lawyer focused on the global food industry, Edison Tang provides advice and counsel to multinational food companies, retailers, and trade associations. As a multilingual and globally focused lawyer, Mr. Tang has assisted multinational companies (MNCs) in cross-border merger and acquisitions, foreign direct investment, transactions, corporate management structures, internal investigations, and compliance. Mr. Tang also provides consulting on food standards, food nutrition claims and litigation as well as intellectual property implicated transactions and litigation. In addition to his work with MNCs, Mr. Tang routinely advises Chinese food companies on import and export compliance in diverse global markets.

Before co-founding Food Coordinate, Mr. Tang worked for a US law firm and two MNCs where he advised on policy matters and routinely engaged with PRC authorities on compliance issues. Mr. Tang also remains active in public policy discussions and academia, routinely teaching and lecturing on comparative law between the U.S., EU, and China. Mr. Tang is a food scholar at the UCLA Resnick Food Law and Policy Center, an adjunct professor at Michigan State University, and a Food Safety advisor to the World Bank. Finally, Mr. Tang serves as legal counsel forthe think tank under China AMR and the national association under China customs.