While China’s rapidly restructuring and growing economy offers uniquely attractive trade and investment opportunities, capitalizing on those opportunities presents particular challenges. An intricate variety of legal, regulatory, governmental and cultural barriers confront companies trying to do business in China. Yet as China continues to open its economy, increasingly sophisticated investment and financing choices for structuring transactions are becoming available to investors, as are an array of approaches to regulatory barriers and in-country operations.
To assist clients with these challenges and opportunities, our China practice offers a unique combination of services bringing together prominent policy, regulatory and government relations capabilities in China with premier in-country business and transactions experience. This combination allows the China team to offer clients unparalleled depth and scope of service, keeping with our tradition of sophisticated problem solving at the intersection of business, government and regulation.
The firm’s core China team was established by Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, former United States Trade Representative, and Robert Novick, former USTR General Counsel. They are joined by prominent China attorneys William C. McCahill, Jr., former Deputy Chief of Mission and Chargé d’Affaires of the American Embassy in Beijing; Lester Ross, a partner in the international transactions practice; and a group of lawyers and staff who are widely recognized as one of the strongest China-based legal teams for corporate, financial services and intellectual property work, including M&A, foreign direct investment, banking and finance, insurance, telecommunications and technology.
We held a seminar on March 16, 2005, "Doing Business in China," co-sponsored with Marsh Inc. Presentations were made by expert speakers who have advised clients and conducted business in China, and have significant experience working with the Chinese Government. These speakers discussed what they have learned in avoiding the pitfalls on the road to success. Presentations and information from the seminar can be found by clicking here.