Representative Experience
Over 25 years of extensive experience in representing U.S. companies doing business in China and Chinese companies doing business in the U.S.
In the "outbound" area:
Structuring, documenting and negotiating strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures (equity and cooperative), assets-based financing and BOT projects for U.S. and international clients in financial, automobile, retail, chemical, semi-conductor, machinery, computer and pharmaceutical industries
Advising U.S. technology clients on developing strategies and programs for intellectual property protection and their licensing, distribution joint R&D projects in China
Troubled business work-out and representing U.S. clients in judicial, arbitration and administrative proceedings in China
In the "in-bound" area:
Structuring, documenting and negotiating commercial loans, aircraft purchases and financings, joint ventures, mergers and acquisitions and distribution
Trouble business work-out and employment based immigration and non-immigration visa petitions
Prior Experience
Law professor in International Business Law and Director of International Law Department of East China Institute of Political Science and Law, one of the leading law schools in China
Part-time practice and senior counsel with a prestigious international law firm under China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) Shanghai Council
Foreign attorney with Brown & Wood in New York
Foreign Legal Consultant with Preston, Thorginson, Ellis & Holman in Seattle (presently Preston Gate Ellis)
Representative Clients
Firm client relationship partner for The Timken Company; Genencor International; WPMI LLP, a WellPoint company;
W.L. Gore & Associates; Bank of China; and China Eastern Airlines
Publications and Presentations
Frequent lecturer to various training programs and business seminars sponsored by American Conference Institute, American Corporate Counsel Association, California State Bar, The Prince of Wales Business Leaders Forum, Shanghai Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Liaoning provincial government and petroleum industry
Guest lecturer at the University of Washington Law School and the Willamette College of Law
Instructor designated by the Ministry of Justice of China on Intellectual Property Protection and Technology licensing for its training program for law practitioners (1980s)
“Systematic Problems of Foreign Financing in the PRC, A Comparative Legal Study,” published by UMI Publishers, 1991
“The Climate for Intellectual Property Protection: Improved But Pitfalls Remain,” The Los Angeles Business Journal, Supplement, March 13, 1995
“Surviving an Economy with ‘Chinese Character’,” The Los Angeles Business Journal, Asian Business Forum, August 26, 1996
“The Ironies of the ‘Rep Office’,” The Recorder, Special Supplement, Summer 1995, 21-23
“Representative Offices in China Opportunities and Problems,” The Los Angeles Business Journal, Supplement, March 27, 1995
Co-author, “The Wholly Foreign-owned Enterprise Law: Defining the Legislative History and Interpreting the Statute,” Journal of Chinese Law 153-177, 1988 (Columbia Law School)
“The Embryo of China's Private International Law,” 23 Willamette Law Review 737 69, 1987
Co-author, “Economic and Trade Organizations in the P.R.C.,” Chapter One of Doing Business in China, Matthew Bender publication, 1991
“Sino-Foreign Cooperative Joint Venture Law,” American Journal of International Law, 1988 Supplement
Memberships and Activities
California and New York State Bar Associations
American Bar Association
Lawyers Association of the People's Republic of China (Bar equivalency)
(Chinese regulations do not currently permit him to actively practice Chinese law in China while working for a foreign law firm)
The 2000 John Davis Award for Outstanding Legal Expertise (Firm Award), Recipient
Selected to "Super Lawyers," California
Education
Master of Laws (LL.M. equivalency), Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences Law Institute
LL.M., Ph.D. in Comparative Law, University of Washington School of Law
