Shanghai
The establishment of our Shanghai office in 2006 has significantly reinforced the firm's increasing capability and presence in the region, and is in-line with our strategy to be present in all major trading centres of the world.
Members of the China group have provided local and international clients with legal advice and services since the opening of our Hong Kong office in 1981. For more than 25 years, our China team has advised clients on the business opportunities offered by China's evolving markets.
The Shanghai team works closely with our international offices, and particularly with our Hong Kong and Singapore offices. The Shanghai and Hong Kong offices operate as an integrated unit and there is much involvement and interaction between the two offices. We have the critical mass, resources and depth of experience to handle the largest and most complex transactions.
We continue to expand our team and services to meet the interests of clients, particularly Europe-based clients, in M&A and foreign direct investment into China. We also serve the commercial needs of our UK, US and Middle East client base with interests in Asia.
Our clients include major international corporates, insurers and reinsurers, investment banks and other financial institutions, trading houses, airlines, oil and gas companies, charters, shipowners, ship builders, P&I clubs and government organisations.
We provide a full commercial service including:
- Aviation
- Corporate and commercial
- Corporate restructuring and insolvency
- Dispute resolution and international arbitration
- Insurance and reinsurance
- Intellectual property
- International trade
- Shipping and logistics
Our lawyers are qualified to practise law in Singapore, Hong Kong, England and Wales, Italy and Spain. Many of them speak Mandarin and Cantonese in addition to English, and are also fluent in Italian, Spanish, French and German.
Key work handled in our Shanghai office includes: representing a Chinese partner in its US$400 million acquisition by a large US private equity fund; establishing a life insurance joint venture; and assisting a shipping group with establisment of agencies in many cities throughout China.