Practice areas

Antitrust, Competition and Trade (ACT)

What we do

We advise on merger control, cartel investigations, restrictive practices, commercial agreements. We are experts in sector specific regulation and international trade.

Existing clients include

  • 3 Com
  • Anheuser Busch
  • Caterpillar
  • Cerberus
  • Wacker Chemie AG
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Corporate

What we do

We advise both multinationals and red chip Chinese companies on high profile landmark deals in public/private M&A, securities, private equity, joint ventures.

Typical clients

  • Air China
  • Alibaba
  • China Construction Bank
  • Fortis
  • Sinopec
  • Wyeth
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Dispute Resolution

What we do

Our lawyers advise on complex commercial disputes, international arbitrations (both China related and in South East Asia generally), regulatory investigations, intellectual property disputes and product liability. We also specialize in fraud and asset tracing exercises.

Past clients include

  • Brunei Investment Agency
  • China Oriental Company Limited
  • Danone
  • HSBC
  • IBM China
  • Securities and Futures Commission
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Finance

What we do

Our finance department focuses on high value, structured, finance transactions – primarily involving leveraged and acquisition debt, bonds and equity-linked products, energy and infrastructure and distressed debt, restructuring and insolvency.

Typical clients include

  • AIG
  • Citigroup
  • Deutsche Bank
  • HSBC
  • Macquarie Bank
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Intellectual Property /
Information Technology

What we do

Our IP/IT lawyers undertake contentious and non-contentious work advising on patent litigation, trade marks, copyright, internet & e-commerce, data protection & privacy and outsourcing.

Clients

  • Bally
  • Hutchison
  • LVMH
  • TOM Group
  • UBS
  • VF Corporation
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"With new laws constantly being developed, our team operates at the cutting edge of change."

Michael Sheng

Associate, Shanghai

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